Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi stresses that Boris Johnson's 2019 manifesto was written at a time when the "COVID challenge didn't exist".
Johnson looks set to breach a number of manifesto pledges in a bid to raise extra funding for social care, an issue which Zahawi says that sucessive governments have not "grasped the nettle" on.
Report by Edwardst.
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