{"id":1042,"date":"2022-06-19T06:06:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T06:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/06\/19\/has-boris-johnson-met-his-pledges\/"},"modified":"2022-06-19T06:06:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T06:06:39","slug":"has-boris-johnson-met-his-pledges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=1042","title":{"rendered":"Has Boris Johnson met 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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After surviving an attempt by his own MPs to oust him, Boris Johnson has said he wants “to get on with the mission on which this government was elected”. Mr Johnson has made a series of pledges to voters since winning the 2019 election. <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Delivering on them has been made harder by the Covid pandemic, so how is he getting 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 321,018 full-time equivalent NHS nurses and health visitors in February 2022. That is up 24,295 since December 2019, leaving 25,705 posts to fill in the next three years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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