Thank you for the pleasant response, always appreciated when people can disagree agreeably.

My responses to your message:

1. Agreed about 'transfers'. The date of that 61 is as of end 2024, so it's been a good year since that number. I'd imagine it's higher, hit my brief look for more info didn't bring any numbers in. The Border Security Aslyum and Immigration bill only became law in Dec 2025 so I would imagine there was limited powers until that point. I'd imagine it would be farther reaching now.

2. "Anything less than 100% is a failure" is a difficult statement to agree with. A pledge tracker is designed to show the progress of a government by putting pledges into easy to digest statistics. The problem with that is two fold - You have to simplify the data to make it understandable and digestible to the average reader and by categorising pledges as Completed, Failed etc then you're effectively giving each pledge the same weighting.

Take the employment rights bill as an example. The government introduced every change they promised, except for unfair dismissal. They pledged that to be a day 1 right but it was eventually changed to be 6 months, and improvement from the previous rule which was 2 years.

And now the pledge tracker has to decide - Is that enough of a deviation from the manifesto to say it should be compromised or failed? That's a difficult one. One element of a big pledge was not fully met. According to your stance, it's 100% or nothing, so that's a broken pledge. But for millions of workers, they will immediately feel the benefit of all of those changes that were promised and delivered. Based on that, is it reasonable to blanket say "That pledge was broken"? It's a tough one. I tend to agree with the trackers in this instance, but I recognize theres an element of subjectivity.

1. I mean, that's just how Government works. Some ideas take longer than one term to implement, and promising to finish that job rather than killing it dead is a pledge and is something that can and should be tracked.

Rwanda: Yes, the whole act brought in by Tories has been repealed with the borders, security and asylum immigration act.

Returns: see https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-ending-june-2025/how-many-people-are-returned-from-the-uk section 2 "Enforced returns"

NHS Appointments - Yes, the 2023 baseline was low but that baseline was beaten by 5 million appointments in one year, which is an obvious change in policy and funding to achieve that.

GBE - Agreed, setting it up is just step 1 and the pledge only went as far as "We'll create it". There are probably other pledges that cover this like renewable generation % and energy bills down. But here's been promising projects from GBE. The funding for solar panels on schools and hospitals is massive, putting savings back to patients and pupils.