The Conservative Party today took 85 minutes to publish their own election manifesto in a bizarre blunder.
The document was handed out to journalists who attended today's launch in Telford - revealing a return to student nurse grants and a pledge not to delay Brexit beyond 2020.
Boris Johnson - who has promised a broadband revolution - waved the document around at the launch which began at 2pm.
But experts, the public and basically anyone not in the actual room where it was launched had to wait until 3.25pm to read it.
It comes weeks after Boris Johnson was lambasted for not releasing a report on Russian interference in time before the election.
Labour's press team quipped: "The Conservative manifesto is suspiciously nowhere to be found online.
"Boris Johnson isn't very good at releasing reports, is he?"
Boris Johnson today launched the Tory manifesto as he confirmed he will follow through on a threat to enact full-blown Brexit on 1 January 2021 - deal or no deal.
The Conservative Party leader pledged he would not delay the transition period a day beyond 31 December next year - which critics brand a 'trapdoor to no-deal'.
Meanwhile he unleashed a torrent of U-turns on years of Tory austerity as he launched the manifesto in Telford - three days after Labour pledged billions in spending.
the Tory leader said he'd bring back student nurse grants - four years after Tories decided to scrap them - and pledged to have 50,000 more nurses.
But he offered no answer to many of the crippling questions plaguing the nation - including the crisis in social care and Universal Credit .
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