Editorial style. Humour in the words, straight visuals.
Lookalike branding: recognisable by colour and layout only. All names, logos and mastheads are original.
14. Health service
+National Health Trust · St Aldric's HospitalWard
+National Health TrustA&E is at breaking point.
Winter has arrived early. Beds are full.
11h 40mAverage A&E wait
7.9mWaiting list
94%Bed occupancy
38kNursing vacancies
Hospital trusts are declaring critical incidents.
"We're treating people in corridors again."Sarah, A&E nurse
Emergency winter fund · £1.2bn
Send in the army medics
Hold firm, it'll pass
15. Union ballot
✊Union HQ · Strike BallotIndustrial
United Care Workers
Est. 1921 · Unity is Strength
Fair Pay
or We Walk
Ballot result · 71% turnout
Legal threshold met. Action from Monday.
- 10% pay rise
- Safe staffing levels in law
- No more agency cuts
Clap for us? Pay us!Patients before profitsWe can't wait
Open talks
Pass minimum-service law
16. Morning papers
¶The Morning PapersNewsstand
The BlazeONLY 60p
Nurse
Strike
Chaos!
PM hiding in No10 bunker · PAGES 4, 5, 6, 7
The Daily Ledger
Est. 1855 · Tuesday 14 March
Government faces biggest health walkout in a generation as talks collapse
The City CourierFTSE −1.2%
Gilts wobble as investors question how a pay deal would be funded
17. Build your manifesto
✎Party HQ · Manifesto LaunchPledges 5/7
Write your manifesto.
Pick up to 7 pledges. Every one you break will be quoted back at you.
Cost per year£21bn / £25bn credible
HealthImmigrationJobsEnergyPoliceDefence
✓
Cut net migration to 200kApproval + · labour shortages −
£0Skilled worker fast-track visaGrowth + · voters split
+£2bnRecruit 20k overseas nursesClashes with your migration cap
£1bnProcess asylum claims in 6 monthsHotel costs − · needs staff
£0.8bnYour manifesto reads asPatriotic Centrist
Launch
Getting started
First launch, setup and onboarding
18. Title / continue
A game of hard choices
Number 10
Continue Year 2 · Week 34
New government
Daily Crisis NEW
Playing as
The Member for Little SnoringSettings
19. First launch: nickname
10Number 10 · Front DoorWelcome
Who's moving in?
No sign-up. Pick a title for the leaderboard. You can change it later.
Your title
The Member for Little Snoring
The Member for…
The Rt Hon…
Little Snoring
Much Wittering
Upper Grumbling
Shuffle ↻
Region (optional)
North East▾
We store a random player ID and your game results. No name, email or location. Hide yourself from public boards any time in Settings.
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20. Choose difficulty
10Number 10 · New governmentStep 1/3
How hard a job?
Same economics in every mode. Harder means more systems and less warning.
BackbencherStrong economy, big majority. Arrows show what moves. Survive one term.
EasyPrime MinisterToday's UK. Minority possible. Win re-election.
MediumCrisis PMRecession, strikes, nervous markets. Beat Medium to unlock.
HardCustomToggle systems on or off. Not ranked.
After Medium
Medium adds: Trust, Corruption Heat, delivery capacity (4 reforms), narrow forecast ranges.
Next: your party
21. Found your party
✎Party HQ · FoundingStep 2/3
NR
Party name
New Reform Alliance
Colour
Slogan
Fix the basics.
A country that works.
Real party names are blocked.
Next: manifesto
22. Historic scenarios
§The National ArchiveScenarios
Take over in a crisis.
Real starting figures. You are a fictional PM.
1976The IMF CrisisSterling falling, inflation 16%
Hard
1984The Miners' StrikePit closures, a year-long walkout
Medium
2008The CrashBanks failing by the hour
Hard
2016The ReferendumThe country has voted to leave
Medium
2020PandemicLockdown, furlough, vaccines
Hard
2022Mini-Budget AftermathGilts in freefall
Hard
Sandbox: present day, random events
23. First-card coach
10Number 10 · Cabinet RoomWeek 1
Week 1 · Year 1Easy · Centrist
Six bars. Any at zero and you're out.Every choice moves them. Some effects land months later, so watch for the delayed ones.
1 of 3Got it →
Governing
The month-to-month loop beyond the basic card
24. Negotiate (Hard)
10Number 10 · Cabinet RoomHard
Department for TransportWeek 12
Rail workers reject 4%. Walkout in nine days.
Set your offer. Higher settles faster but sets a precedent for others.
Chance they accept55% to 70%
Cost per year£0.6bn to £0.9bn
Make offer6.5%
Fund itFares +3%
DelegateMinister owns it
DelayBuy 1 month
25. Delayed effect lands
10Number 10 · Red boxConsequence
18 MONTHS AGO · WEEK 34, YEAR 2
You refused the nurses' 10%.
Today 40,000 nurses have quit the National Health Trust.
Agency staff now cost twice as much. Waits are rising again.
Services −9Treasury −4Approval −5
Why: low pay raises leaving rates; replacing staff with agency workers costs more. Source: estimate, based on NHS workforce data.
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26. Broken pledge: explain or spin
10Number 10 · Press officeTrust
You are about to break a pledge
"We will not raise income tax."
58
Trust is how far people believe you. It falls fast and builds slowly.
The energy shock was real, not self-made. An honest case will be heard.
Explain it openlyTrust −2 · Approval −6
Call it a "temporary levy"Trust ? · Approval −2
Say nothingTrust −8
Spin can be exposed later for a big Trust hit.
27. Quarterly summary
QCabinet Office · Quarter reportQ3 · Year 2
Three months in brief.
Two quiet months skipped. One strike settled.
Treasury−6
Economy+3
Services+1
Approval−2
Party0
Markets−1
Coming upBudget Day in 6 weeks. Two delayed effects due before then.
Next quarter
28. Inbox (Insane)
10Number 10 · Private OfficeInsane
Delivery capacity · 3 of 3 used
Steelworks to close in Port TalbardBusiness · 4,000 jobs2 days
Coalition partner wants fishing quotaCoalition · red line3 days
Flooding across the Severn valleyEnvironment · crisis1 wk
OBR forecast leakTreasury · markets watching2 wks
Minister's expenses queryEthics · Heat 341 mo
Ignored items resolve themselves. Usually badly.
29. Resilience dashboard
£Department for IndustryLong game
How self-reliant is Britain?
% made or produced in the UK. Line shows where you started.
Energy62%
Food60%
Manufacturing41%
Defence70%
Medicines28%
Tech22%
In progressTwo SMR nuclear sites: first power in year 4. Bills barely move: gas is priced globally.
80% in every sector unlocks a title.
Parliament and power
Multi-party Britain: minority, coalition, polls
30. Whip count (minority)
⚖House of Commons · DivisionTonight 10pm
Second reading
Planning Reform Bill
You need 39 more votes. Who can you win over?
Liberal Centre31Wants: local veto
Green Left18Red line: greenbelt
Your rebels12Want: housing cash
Accept Liberal Centre amendment+31
Pull the billParty −4
31. Coalition talks
⌂Cabinet Office · Coalition talksDay 3
The Liberal Centre will join. At a price.
Their leader, Ellen Marchbank, sets three demands.
✓Deputy PM and the Home OfficeParty −3 · your MPs wanted it
✓Referendum on voting reformCould end single-party majorities
✕Scrap your migration cap pledgeBreaks a manifesto pledge · Trust hit
Majority with them+14 seats
Counter: 2 of 360% they accept
Accept allCoalition formed
Govern as minorityVote by vote
32. Polls and seat projection
▶Six O'Clock News · Poll trackerMonth 41
Five parties, no majority.
Vote share, and what that wins under first past the post.
Projected seats
Pensioners drifting to the National Right after the triple lock change.
33. Election night
▶Six O'Clock News · Election special04:12
EXIT POLL CONFIRMED
New Reform largest party. 22 short of a majority.
Change since last time +50Majority line 326
Declaration · Hartlepool EastNew Reform GAIN from Labour Union. Swing 8.4%.
ShockFarmers' Alliance takes its first seat in Herefordshire North.
Open coalition talks
Govern as minority
Crisis and failure
Warnings, market shocks, alternative modes
34. Gilt crisis warning
▶Six O'Clock News · MarketsLIVE
MARKETS BELOW 20
Borrowing costs hit a 30-year high.
Investors doubt the £28bn of unfunded pledges. If Markets hits zero, the run ends.
Publish a costed planMarkets +12
Reverse the tax cutU-turn · Trust −6
Hold your nerveRisky
35. Britain Goes Red (secret mode)
★People's Ministry · 1945 alt historyMonth 9
9Months the regime has survived
Bread queues now 2 hours long.
Engineers are leaving. The black market sets the real price of eggs.
Ration everything+1 month · Trust −10
Close the borders+2 months · Trust −15
Allow private marketsRegime −20
What really happened: Soviet shortages, 1980s
36. What really happened
§The National Archive · 1976History
You chose
Cut spending by £2bn. No IMF loan.
What really happenedThe government borrowed $3.9bn from the IMF and made deep spending cuts.
Your inflation, 197713.1%
Real inflation, 197715.8%
Your sterling$1.79
Real sterling$1.75
Source: ONS, Bank of England historic series.
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Records and settings
Leaderboard, honours, preferences, desktop
37. Leaderboard
#The National Archive · RankingsThis week
All timeThis weekDaily CrisisHardRegion
1The Rt Hon Sir PickleHard · Free-market · 2 terms
9,840
2Member for Much WitteringHard · Centrist · Re-elected
9,120
3Baroness TeacupMedium · Green · Re-elected
8,775
4Lord Upper GrumblingHard · Socialist · Ousted yr 4
8,410
5The Member for FogbottomMedium · Nationalist
8,002
· · ·
212The Member for Little SnoringMedium · Centrist · 1,208 days
6,330
Every score is re-played on our server from your seed and choices.
38. Honours and titles
§The National Archive · Honours7 of 24
Your honours.
Hidden ones stay hidden until earned.
✓Promise Keeper
All pledges kept
£Balanced Books
Surplus year
⚖Survivor
Full term
RFortress Britain
80% Resilience
☂Crisis Hand
3 shocks handled
✉Red Envelope
Secret unlock
7Week Streak
Daily Crisis
?Hidden
?Hidden
A hintThe red envelope only comes to the popular…
39. Settings and privacy
⚙Number 10 · Private OfficeSettings
Settings.
Show me on public leaderboardsOff still counts your stats anonymously
Dark modeLate-night briefing
Reduce motionNo ticker scroll or bar easing
Daily Crisis reminder08:00
NicknameThe Member for Little Snoring
Edit ›Sign in to keep historyGoogle or Apple · coming soon
LaterVersion 0.1 · Privacy note · Sources and methodology
40. Desktop layout
10Number 10Yr 2
Week 34 · Medium · Centrist
Keys: 1 · 2 · 3 to choose, W for why
LIVEInflation 3.8% · Gilts 4.6% · Waiting list 7.9m · Debt £2.71tn
+ National Health TrustUrgent
Nurses vote to strike from Monday.
The union wants 10%. Paying in full costs £3bn a year.
"I love this job. I can't afford to keep doing it."Sarah, A&E nurse, Leeds
1 · Pay 10% £3.0bn
2 · Offer 5% £1.5bn
3 · Refuse £0
Pledges
✓ No income tax rise
✓ Cut waiting lists
! Net migration 200k
✓ 1.5m homes
Coming due
Junior doctors' deal reviewed in 3 months.
Polls
NR 23 · LU 21 · NRt 19 · LC 13
Good days
Payoffs, praise and wins: the reasons to keep playing
41. Good morning papers
¶The Morning PapersPress
Nurses back on wards as five-week strike ends
Deal at 6.5% praised as "fair and funded". Waiting lists set to fall by autumn.
What the papers sayThe Blaze: "PM'S DEAL OF THE DAY". The City Courier: "Gilts steady on costed settlement".
Who's pleased
Workers +8
Pensioners +4
Business 0
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42. A good decision pays off
✓Number 10 · Red boxPayoff
3 YEARS AGO · WEEK 8, YEAR 1
You doubled funding for engineering apprenticeships.
Today 60,000 newly qualified engineers start work.
Two car plants say they can finally hire locally. Wages in Teesside are up 4%.
Economy +7Approval +4Resilience +3
Why: skills training lifts productivity, but takes years to show. Source: IFS evaluation of apprenticeship returns.
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43. Opening day
+National Health Trust · New hospitalDelivered
Teesside General opens on time and on budget.
400 beds. The first new hospital in the region for 30 years.
"My mum waited 14 hours last winter. Today she'd be seen in two."Darren, bus driver, Middlesbrough
Services+6
North East approval+9
Pledge: "Cut waiting lists"On track
Cut the ribbon yourselfApproval +2
Let the nurses do itTrust +2
44. Budget well received
£HM Treasury · The day afterBudget
Verdicts are in
A budget that adds up.
Office for Budget ResponsibilityFiscal rules met with £9bn headroom. Debt falling as a share of GDP by year 5.
10-year gilt4.1% ↓
Pound$1.31 ↑
Markets+11
Party+5
Think tank"Tough on spending, fair on who pays. Unusually honest numbers."
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45. A letter to Number 10
✉Number 10 · Post roomWeek 51
One of 3,412 letters this week
Dear Prime Minister,
I didn't vote for you. But the childcare change meant I could go back to work, and I passed my nursing exams last month.
So, thank you. I might vote for you next time.
Priya, Leicester
Working parents' approval is up 11 points since the change.
Write backTrust +1
Read it out at PMQsApproval +2 · risk of "stunt"
46. Factory opens
⚙Department for IndustryResilience
Investment confirmed
Battery gigafactory picks Sunderland.
£4bn private investment after your full-expensing tax change.
Jobs3,200
Supply chain jobs~6,000
Manufacturing made in UK
41% → 47%80% unlocks Fortress Britain
Honest footnoteTax cut cost £1.2bn this year. OBR expects it to pay back about half over a decade.
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47. Pledge delivered
§Manifesto tracker4 of 7 kept
You promised
"We will get waiting lists below 6 million."
DELIVERED
5.8m
Down from 7.9m when you took office
Trust +6Approval +5
Keep all 7 for a full term to earn Promise Keeper.
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48. Poll surge
▶Six O'Clock News · PoliticsLIVE
POLL
Government opens 9-point lead, the biggest in a decade.
Projected: majority of 40.
Call an early electionGamble
Bank it, keep governingPolitical capital +10
49. Re-elected
✓Election night · Result05:40
RE-ELECTED
A majority of 84.
The first government in 20 years to increase its majority after a full term.
Your best momentWaiting lists below 6 million, as promised.
Swing seatHartlepool East holds with a 12,000 majority.
Second term: new cabinet
Share result
50. Honeymoon and political capital
10Number 10 · Chief of StaffYear 1
You have goodwill. Spend it wisely.
Big reforms cost less in your first year. Wins top it back up.
Political capital
78 / 100Honeymoon ends in 7 months
Reforms ready to launch
Planning overhaulBig long-term growth · local anger
−30Social care capEnds "selling your house" fear
−25Council tax revaluationFairer · first since 1991
−40
Delivery capacity: 2 of 4 slots free.
51. The Downing Street cat
10Number 10 · Front stepLight relief
Chancellor Whiskers has caught a mouse on live TV.
The clip has 14 million views. Your approval has not moved. The cat's has.
Cat approval91%. Higher than any politician since records began.
Give the cat a titleApproval +1
Pose for photos with itRisk: upstaged
Say nothing. Let it work.Dignity intact
52. National moment
▶Six O'Clock News · SportCelebration
Good news, for once
Team GB finish second in the medal table.
Your school sport funding trained 6 of the gold medallists.
Extra bank holidayApproval +6 · Economy −1
Victory paradeApproval +3 · £20m
Fund more school sportLong-term health +
53. Your legacy
§The National Archive · VerdictAfter 2 terms
How history will judge you
A−
"The Builder. Left the country stronger than they found it."
Debt to GDP98% → 91%
Waiting list7.9m → 4.6m
Energy made in UK55% → 74%
Pledges kept12 of 14
Real wages+9%
In the textbooksRemembered for the apprenticeship boom and the first new hospitals in a generation.
Share your legacy
54. Victory share card
Number 10 · Final record
Re-elected with a majority of 84.
Britain 74% energy self-sufficient under my government. Waiting lists halved. Debt falling.
Days in office3,612
DifficultyHard
ManifestoGreen Centrist
Rank this week#14
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Ordinary days
Most of governing: routine, small trade-offs, things that are just fine
55. A quiet month
10Number 10 · DiaryMonth 17
MAY · YEAR 2
A quiet month. The trains mostly ran.
Inflation held at 2.4%. Nobody resigned. The papers led on the weather.
Economy +1Approval 0Services −1
Next month
56. Routine decision
10Number 10 · Cabinet RoomRoutine
Department for TransportLow priority
Councils want to fix potholes before winter.
£300m buys roughly 1.5 million repairs. Nobody will thank you. Everyone will notice if you don't.
Fund it £0.3bn
Half now, half in spring £0.15bn
Leave it to councils £0
Why does this matter?
57. Mixed result
¶The Morning PapersPage 6
School meals expansion: popular with parents, late in some areas
Two thirds of councils hit the September start. The rest say January.
Parents' approval+3
Council budgets−2
Delivery capacity used1 slot
Fair to sayNot a triumph. Not a scandal. It will probably be fine by spring.
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58. The PM's week
10Number 10 · Private OfficeWeek 22
This week.
Pick one thing to make time for. The rest happens anyway.
MonCabinet. Agreed the bus fares cap, no drama.Done
TueVisit to a Bristol bakeryApproval +1 if you go
WedPMQsExpect questions on bin collections
ThuCall with the Canadian PMTrade talks ticking along
FriConstituency surgeryParty +1, local goodwill
Do the bakeryApproval +1
Do the surgeryParty +1
Clear the red boxDelivery faster
59. Minor ask from a backbencher
⚖House of Commons · Tea RoomInformal
A quiet word
Your MP for Kettlebury wants a new bypass study.
It costs £2m. It won't get built for a decade. It would make her very happy.
"I've voted with you every time. Just this once?"Helen Ashdown, MP for Kettlebury
Fine, fund the studyParty +1
Promise to "look at it"Free · small Trust risk
Politely noParty −1
60. A steady quarter
QCabinet Office · Quarter reportQ2 · Year 3
Steady as she goes.
Nothing big moved. Two small things went right, one small thing slipped.
Treasury0
Economy+1
Services−1
Approval0
Party0
Markets+1
Small things
✓ Passport backlog cleared
✓ Bus fares cap started
✕ Broadband rollout three weeks late
Next quarter
61. Slow news day
▶Six O'Clock News18:00
Tonight's running order
1Heatwave warning for the South East
2Bank of England holds rates at 3.75%As expected · Markets 0
3Government confirms new rail timetableMild interest
4A swan has been reunited with its owner
You were not mentioned. Your press team counts this as a win.
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62. By-election hold
✎By-election · StourmouthResult
Result
Held. Majority down a bit.
Normal for a mid-term by-election. Turnout 38%.
Majority8,900 → 3,100
Party0
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63. Minor reshuffle
⌂Cabinet Office · ReshuffleJunior posts
The Schools Minister is retiring. Gracefully.
No scandal. She wants to spend more time with her allotment.
Raj MehtaCompetent, loyal, slightly dull
Delivery +Fiona ClarkeBright, ambitious, talks to journalists
RiskyTom HaleFrom the other wing of the party
Party +2
Junior posts. Low stakes either way.
Appoint
64. Summer recess
10Number 10 · AugustRecess
AUGUST · YEAR 3
Parliament is off. So, mostly, are you.
Six weeks with no votes. Where are you spending them?
Cornwall, phone onApproval +1
Abroad, phone offRisky if a crisis hits
Stay and workDelivery +, "workaholic"