An announcement can win a headline. Only delivery can earn your trust. Follow the public mood over nearly thirty years. In nineteen ninety-six, twenty-two percent usually trusted governments to put the country before their party. In twenty twenty-four, it was twelve percent. In that twenty twenty-four survey, forty-six percent answered almost never. Those are historical answers about governments of any party, not a poll about today’s Prime Minister. One real accountability case is the Post Office Horizon scandal. The public inquiry describes people wrongly imprisoned, financial ruin and serious harm to families. Its July twenty twenty-five report made nineteen urgent recommendations on compensation and redress. A recommendation is not the same thing as a person receiving fair compensation. The same distinction applies to everyday promises. Announcing a school place, funding a hospital and actually providing support are different stages. Why is trust tied to the other films? In August twenty twenty-six, the public’s leading concerns were living costs, the NHS and the economy. But these surveys do not prove which policy caused distrust. They tell us what people report, and which outcomes deserve scrutiny. Publish the baseline, progress, delays and corrections. A deadline still in the future is not a broken promise. A completed project is not automatically a successful one. Follow the government tracker and the evidence at www dot uk-statpack dot co dot uk.