Full Fact – Government Tracker
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Full Fact needs another category for mandate-less change; and on there you would find:
– https://fullfact.org/government-tracker/digital-id/
A review from Full Fact in September 2025:
“Of the 80 pledges we’ve looked at so far, 17 are currently rated as ‘achieved’—that is, in our view the government has done what it said it would do. Another 18 appear ‘on track’, and in 19 other cases we can point to signs of progress.
So with around two thirds of the pledges we’ve looked at, the government appears either to have delivered what it said it would or is making progress towards it.
Given the widespread media criticism and relatively poor polling Labour has faced of late, that may sound surprising. There are just three pledges we’ve rated as ‘appears off track’, as things stand: the government’s promises [to build 1.5 million new homes in England](https://fullfact.org/government-tracker/1-5-million-homes/), [end the use of hotels to house asylum seekers](https://fullfact.org/government-tracker/asylum-hotels/) and [restore development spending to 0.7% of national income](https://fullfact.org/government-tracker/foreign-aid-development-spending/).”
Good news if the government didn’t have one of the of the worst communications strategies, and set of communicators leading it…
Just counting numbers of pledges met/not met doesn’t make sense because not all pledges are equal in magnitude.
This method would essentially consider something like “we pledge to take the bins out on Fridays” to be equally as important as “we’re going to end the cost of living crisis”.
Like, if they meet their smaller, fairly inconsequential pledges but fail on their few key major ones, this tracker will make it look like they’re doing well when they’re failing miserably.
They class this pledge as achieved
https://fullfact.org/government-tracker/border-security-command/
Spent £150 million so far – no results to speak of in a year and a half other than wasting another £150 million
Why is this missing so many? WASPI Women Compensation? Cutting PIP? Pledge to cut availability of winter fuel payments? two child benefit cap? U turn on grooming gang inquiry first of all being a far right bandwagoning? Scaling back green prosperity plan? Restoring international aid budget? Farmers tax inheritance changes being called nonsense? (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/nov/20/rural-mps-urge-government-to-reassure-farmers-over-new-tax-rates)
just a few of the obvious ones strangely absent from this
This has been repeatedly debunked. Some parts are incorrect (they get a tick for establishing and funding a bank when they haven’t funded it!?) and some are very misleading (they gave additional powers to water regulators, when the issue is they don’t use the powers they have, they “reviewed sentences” which meant early release for 1000s).
We all want the government to be doing better, but it’s time to accept this more than a comms problem.
Right, but he did renege on many of his popular policies he based his leadership election on, in the lead up to the election. Had he stuck to those, maybe he wouldn’t be so unpopular right now.
I’m assuming this doesn’t deal with things where Labour *are* doing things that they *hadn’t* pledged (ie bus fare hike, WFA, PIP, Digital IDs etc).