{"id":2613,"date":"2022-08-22T15:22:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T15:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/boris-johnson-resignation-did-the-outgoing-prime-minister-meet-his-pledges\/"},"modified":"2022-08-22T15:22:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T15:22:30","slug":"boris-johnson-resignation-did-the-outgoing-prime-minister-meet-his-pledges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/boris-johnson-resignation-did-the-outgoing-prime-minister-meet-his-pledges\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson resignation: Did the outgoing prime minister meet his pledges?"},"content":{"rendered":"


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By Reality Check team<\/strong>
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“Get Brexit done” was the central theme of the Conservatives’ 2019 manifesto.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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In the run-up to his resignation and as pressure grew, Boris Johnson repeatedly stated that he wanted “to get on with the mission on which this government was elected”. <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Johnson became prime minister and won a landslide victory in 2019 and has made a series of pledges to voters. Delivering on them was made harder by the Covid pandemic, but how did he get on? <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Pledge: 50,000 more nurses and 6,000 more GPs<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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The Conservatives promised this for England by March 2025. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Latest figures<\/a> show 321,624 full-time equivalent NHS nurses and health visitors in March 2022. That is up 24,901 since December 2019, leaving 25,099 posts to fill in the next three years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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