Delivered at Pinewood Studios, the Prime Minister fittingly joked he could be the next 007. Based on the muted response from the Labour faithful in the audience, he might need to work on his delivery, Q won’t save him here.

The six targets are intended to be yardsticks by which voters can judge whether the Government is delivering on its promises. The PM has promised to:

• Put more money in your pockets

• Build 1.5 million homes

• Fix NHS waiting times to ensure 92% wait no longer than 18 weeks for treatment

• Hire 13,000 more police

• Get 75% of five year olds school-ready

• Deliver 95% clean power by 2030

Will it work? There are some optimistic targets here: Take the NHS target, introduced under Tony Blair in 2004; it hasn’t been met in nearly a decade, with only 60% of patients currently seen in time. As for housing, hitting the target needs 300,000 homes every year – faster than any rate since 1968. Unless he’s planning for MHCLG to move the bricks themselves, the notoriously slow planning system seen across the UK might have other ideas.

Missing the targets would certainly be a blow. TWFW is old enough to remember a Prime Minister called Rishi Sunak setting five targets for the voters to judge him by. That didn’t end well for him.

Despite the scepticism, the Prime Minister insists voters should “keep our feet to the fire”. He hopes showing tangible progress will steady the ship after 150 bumpy days in office. Some might say it feels less like James Bond and more like Mission Impossible.

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