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It's been a year since David Cameron defied the pollsters to slip back into Number 10 with a small parliamentary majority.

But his dreams of having an unquestioned Tory mandate with which to force through right-wing policies haven't quite gone to plan.

In just 12 months they've been forced to rethink, retreat and 'pause' on at least 24 policies, facing pressure from both opposition parties, the public - and even his own MPs.

They've made screeching U-turns on everything from tax credits and fox hunting to shady deals with Saudi Arabia and forcing schools to become academies.

Here's some of the eggs David Cameron has had to scrape off his face since last May.

1. Forcing schools to become academies

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Despite being a major part of George Osborne’s Budget just two months ago the Tories u-turned on their plans to make all schools academies in the face of opposition from parents, head teachers and Tory councillors and backbenchers.

2. Cuts to Personal Independence Payments

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Budget 2016 proposed cutting Personal Independent Payments for disabled people – a move that would have left hundreds of thousands of people an average of £3,500 a year worse off.

Within a week the Tories were forced to announce the plans wouldn’t go through.

3. Cuts to tax credits

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The proposed tax credits cuts would have left more than 3 million working families £1,300 a year worse off from this April.

They have not been completely scrapped though – families will still be hit in the long run through cuts to Universal Credit.

4. Pensions tax relief reform

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Even before the Budget George Osborne was forced to abandon his plans to reform pension tax relief when faced with massive opposition from Tory backbenchers.

5. Sunday trading

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Earlier this year the Tories were forced to backtrack on their plans to deregulate Sunday trading rules after they lost a vote on it in the House of Commons.

6. Solar panel tax

Amidst the fallout from the Budget the Tories announced they would accept Labour’s opposition amendment to block the planned increase in VAT on solar panels and energy saving materials.

7. Cracking down on Freedom of Information laws

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Following the General Election the Tory Government set up a Commission to investigate operation of FoI and signalled there would be a crackdown on what he called journalists' "misuse" of the law as a "research tool to generate stories."

The Commission was considering charging journalists for using the act but the Tories then backtracked and no changes to the law were made.

8. The Granny flat tax

In April the Tories u-turned on new stamp duty rules , that had been law only for a few days.

The Treasury had to amend the new stamp duty rules regarding second homes after realising it penalised people with so-called ‘granny flats’.

9. Measurement of child poverty statistics

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Following pressure from Labour and defeat in the House of Lords the Government tabled amendments to the Welfare Reform and Work Bill that reinstated a statutory duty to monitor income related child poverty against the existing four criteria.

10. The Tampon Tax

In the face of a Labour amendment on the issue and Tory backbench rebellions Ministers announced they would not oppose calls to scrap the so-called "tampon tax".

11. Scrapping feminism from the A-Level syllabus

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In January the Tories were forced to reinstate feminism into A-Level politics courses following outrage at their plan to remove all references t the movement.

12. Human rights priority countries

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The Tory Government reversed its position of not naming Bahrain and Egypt as Human Rights Priority Countries. In the recent 2015 Annual Human Rights Report the FCO included Bahrain and Egypt as priorities of concern.

This followed significant criticism following the 2014 report, in which both countries were excluded from the list.

13. Scrapping animal welfare codes

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The Tories had planned to scrap the official code on farming chickens for meat and breeding and put the industry in charge of the guidance, but were forced to back down last month following outcry from Labour and animal charities.

14. Axeing the Wildlife Crime Unit

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The Tories abandoned plans to close the UK’s Wildlife Crime Unit which is tasked with tackling a wide range of crime such as the smuggling of endangered animals and poaching.

15. Repealing the ban on fox hunting

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Last summer the Tories axed plans to water down the fox hunting ban after it became clear they did not have enough support in Parliament to win a vote.

16. Rent cuts to supported housing

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Housing minister Brandon Lewis was forced to the House of Commons to announce the 1% cut in rent for housing providers that support vulnerable people would be delayed for a year.

The cruel cut could have hit supported housing providers by reducing the amount of money they receive in rent and so make it more difficult for them to deliver specialist services.

17. The Housing bill

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The Tories have been forced to make a number of concessions in their extreme Housing and Planning Bill.

Following defeat in the Lords the Tory Government conceded that it will allow new fixed-term tenancies of up to 10 years rather than five, and with special concessions for families who have children of school age.

The Tory Government also tabled an amendment to the Housing and Planning Bill to ensure the one-for-one replacement of high-value council homes sold to fund the Right to Buy extension, following concerns raised by many, including Labour.

In addition, following defeat in the House of Lords the Tory Government accepted changes that would give English planning authorities the discretion to exclude the building of starter homes on special sites in rural areas.

18. Legal Aid contracts

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In January the Ministry of Justice announced the Government would not go ahead with the dual contracting model for legal aid and had suspended the second stage of fee reduction until at least April 2017.

19. The Criminal Courts charge

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This was a £150 flat fee court charge which was not means tested and could rise to £1,000 if someone pleads not guilty but loses their case in court.

The move faced huge opposition within legal profession, with magistrates resigning in protest. The Tories scrapped it in December.

20. The Saudi prisons contract

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In October last year the Tory Government cancelled a contract that would have seen the Ministry of Justice provide prison services to Saudi Arabia.

21. Scrapping the Human Rights Act in the first 100 days

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Before the General Election David Cameron pledged to scrap the Human Rights Act in his first 100 days.

The General Election was 368 days ago.

22. Banning poppers

In January, Parliament voted to approve a blanket ‘legal highs’ ban that would prohibit the sale of drugs including alkyl nitrites (poppers).

Theresa May pushed through the legislation to make poppers illegal, but conceded a review of the issue after expert recommendations and unrest among MPs.

The law had been set to come into force on April 6 – but in a letter to the ACMD, Karen Bradley accepted that poppers weren’t psychoactive and shouldn’t be banned.

23. Pay cuts for interpreters

In January, the Home Office announced it had dropped plans to cut the wages of its pool of more than 2,000 interpreters.

24. Nurses from outside the EU

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In October 2015, the Government u-turned on immigration to allow the recruitment of nurses from outside the EU.