During his last week in office, Boris Johnson has been talking about his record in government - highlighting policies on police recruitment and broadband.
He became prime minister and won a landslide victory in 2019 and made a series of pledges to voters. Delivering on them was made harder by the Covid pandemic, but how did he get on?
The Conservatives promised this for England and Wales by March 2023.
Latest figures, up to 30 June 2022, show an extra 13,790 police officers recruited. That means the government is two-thirds of the way there with one year to go.
But that rise still hasn’t made up for police numbers falling by 20,545 between March 2010 and March 2019 - under Conservative-led governments.
Fail … 
The Conservatives promised this for England by March 2025.
Latest figures show 319,846 full-time equivalent NHS nurses and health visitors in May 2022. That is up 23,753 since December 2019, leaving 26,247 posts to fill.
On GPs, there were 35,257 full-time equivalents in post in July 2022. That’s up by just 738 since the end of December 2019.
If you exclude locums (doctors who temporarily fill a rota gap) and trainees, GP numbers have actually decreased by 314 since December 2019.
Fail …
This 2019 pledge was to be met “over the next 10 years”.
In August 2021, the government came up with several definitions for what it said constituted a “new” hospital:
In December 2021, analysis by BBC Reality Check , found that of the 40 hospital projects announced by the government:
Fail …
This manifesto pledge was to be met by “the mid-2020s”.
In 2019-20, there were 242,700 net additional dwellings, which fell to 216,490 in 2020-21.
Net additional dwellings includes houses converted to flats, commercial buildings switching to domestic use, as well as new builds. It also factors in demolished houses.
Fail …
This was achieved in a literal sense as the UK left the EU on 31 January 2020.
Britain departed from the EU’s single market and customs union 11 months later, after agreeing a basic free trade deal with the EU.
But if this election slogan implied Brexit would be done and dusted, this has clearly not happened. A huge amount remains unresolved, from Northern Ireland to financial services.
A large number of trade deals have been signed around the world (most to replace the ones the UK already had as an EU member) but a deal with the US hasn’t happened.
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), which makes economic judgements for the government, predicts that leaving the EU will reduce the UK’s imports and exports by about 15% in the long term, with about a 4% hit to productivity.
Fail … 
This was not possible while the UK was in the EU because of rules giving citizens the freedom to live and work in all EU countries.
After Brexit, the government did launch this system. EU citizens wishing to live and work in the UK now have to apply for a visa via a points-based system (PBS), the same as citizens from the rest of the world.
The process has not been all plain sailing. Leaving the EU single market is one of the factors that contributed to an HGV driver shortage, because EU drivers can no longer come and go as they please. The government had to introduce 5,000 temporary visas for this sector.
Success … 
In September 2021, the government announced that workers, the self-employed and employers would pay 1.25p more National Insurance (NI) in the pound from April 2022.
But, because of cost of living pressures, the government later reduced the impact of this by announcing that from 6 July 2022 the point at which employees would start paying NI would increase to £12,570.
This means that in the 12 months from April 2022, anyone earning less than about £34,000 will pay less NI than they did last year. Anybody earning more than that will pay more.
Broken …
The government says the money from the NI rise will go initially towards easing pressure on the NHS.
A proportion will then be moved into the social care system - which Mr Johnson pledged, in 2019, to “fix”.
In 2021, the government unveiled its plan to cap the costs that people in England pay for social care. From October 2023, this will be set at a maximum of £86,000 for care during their lifetime.
But the long-awaited reform of funding does not fix other problems such as the shortage of care workers. Research in May 2022 estimated that 500,000 adults in England were waiting for social care, up from 294,000 a year ago.
Fail …
The triple lock means the state pension increases each year at whichever of these is highest:
The 2019 Conservative manifesto said it would stay for the duration of this Parliament.
But this promise was broken on 7 September 2021 when the government announced it was suspending the triple lock for a year and blamed the pandemic (1).
The government says it will return in April 2023.
Broken …
(1) That’s a whole other story of shambles, corruption and death.
IMO, that’s an appalling record … 
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Of course he delivered on them all, he told us he did.
You should know by now … when BJ speaks, BJ lies … 
We are the laughing stock of the world 
And there are more fun and games to be had 
but didn’t he do well 
Indeed … once again, the UK is “the sick man of Europe” … 
And now we have nobody to help us feel better.
Johnson, like a mini-Trump, was all talk and no trousers. Admittedly he was a better speaker than Trump but he relied on his ‘witty’ turn of phrase - and that often led Johnson to over-state things. Or over promise to try to make people like him. Or get things wrong. Pretty much all qualities you do not want to see in a world leader. Good qualities for a chat show host perhaps.
