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Sajid Javid was this morning challenged over a decade of Tory neglect of the NHS and social care - after Boris Johnson unveiled a 100 day 'wish list'.

The Prime Minister has unveiled a series of pledges if his party wins the election, but voters are understandably sceptical.

This morning the Chancellor appeared on BBC Breakfast to face questions on the Tory pledges, including more funding for the NHS.

Presenter Charlie Stayt pointed out that under the Tories, waiting times have risen to record levels, and grilled Mr Javid on why this hasn't been dealt with up to now.

NHS England data shows just 83.6% of patients were admitted or treated within four hours - well below the government's target of 95%.

The Tories have also pledged "cross party talks" about the UK's social care crisis - having failed to include a plan in their own manifesto.

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Even if council tax goes up by 4% - double the rate of inflation - demand for services will outstrip the available cash, analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found.

In contrast, Labour's manifesto has allocated "more than enough" money to local government coffers, with £20billion for day-to-day funding pledged by 2024.

Mr Stayt asked the Chancellor: "Your Conservative government has been in power for 10 years and you've not tackled these things, you've not done what's required, and all of a sudden out of the blue in 100 days you're going to come up with solutions and answers and proposals, people will say why should we trust you now when you haven't delivered before?"

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In response Mr Javid claimed he was "proud" of the Conservative record.

He claimed that priorities had been "reset" when Mr Johnson became Prime Minister, and described the pledges as the "people's priorities".

Mr Stayt asked: "You've been in charge when we've had these shocking times for waiting times. If it was a priority before, why has it become an issue now?"

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Mr Javid admitted that funding the NHS is a challenge, but again attempted to deflect away from the Tories' shocking record.

He said: "The NHS year by year just to stand still needs more funding, we're all living longer, there's new treatments and medicines, it is something to keep it there, you need to keep on looking at it and investing in it.

"Without the funding we will lose it, and for that we need a strong economy."

Tories plan an increase in education spending and put forward legislation to raise NHS spending.

The Conservatives have come under fire for their inability to address social care shortcomings.

Their manifesto says: “We will build a cross-party consensus to bring forward an answer that solves the problem, commands the widest possible support, and stands the test of time.

“That consensus will consider a range of options but one condition we do make is that nobody needing care should be forced to sell their home to pay for it.”

The Tories' costings, published alongside the manifesto, promised no new care funding.

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Genevieve Edwards, Director of External Affairs at the MS Society, said: “We’re extremely disappointed by the lack of a concrete plan to mend our broken social care system.

"Boris Johnson announced on his first day as Prime Minister that he would fix this ‘once and for all’, yet we’re still in the dark about how and when this will be done."

When NHS waiting times were released last month, Jeremy Corbyn branded the figures "disgraceful".

Labour's shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth posted on Twitter : "It’s official - the Tories have pushed our NHS into crisis."

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More than 80,000 patients had to wait more than four hours to be admitted after medics made the decision to admit them, NHS England reveals.

And in September the NHS revealed 76.9% of cancer patients were beginning treatment within 62 days - well short of the 85% target.

Mr Corbyn said: "That's one in five of everyone accessing an A&E department hasn't been seen within the required four hours.

"The four-hour limit of seeing people was brought in under the previous Labour government, as was the two-week wait for cancer treatment. Neither of which are being met across the whole country.

"It is disgraceful and it is a problem of the lack of staff and the lack of funding for it."

Mr Corbyn reiterated Labour's NHS spending plans, "which will deal with all of that".