What's new in 2.6 Tax and the public finances • The main taxes now raise and cost what HMRC's published estimates say. Budget sliders and tax bills use the same figures, so a tax costs the same whichever route you take. • The deficit is shown before debt interest, with the interest bill and total borrowing beside it, and the average rate on the debt next to the 10-year gilt yield. • Gilt yields top out at 15%. If they sit there for six months, the markets stop buying and you face a debt crisis: call in the IMF, pass an Emergency Budget, restructure the debt or hold your nerve. • Bills whose cost lands through the wider economy, such as Universal Basic Income, now show that cost before you vote, and the Treasury warns you before a bill would break a fiscal limit. • Costs now land the way the decision describes: a one-off is paid once, and a programme over set years runs for those years and then stops. Parliament • Bills now go through every Commons stage before you can call the division, about a month each. Calling votes early to pass several bills in a week is no longer possible. • The Parliament screen explains what moves your MPs, and what brings them back: delivered pledges, Budget surpluses and PMQs wins. • Offering concessions in a leadership ballot is no longer an almost-certain escape, so watch your bench. Your cabinet • Request a meeting with a minister about their department. What you learn depends on their expertise and competence. • Ministers' briefs on bills now read as bullet points, from what the bill does to the vote prediction. • Cabinet candidates show their integrity, MP cards show the region of the seat each MP holds, and tapping an ambitious backbencher in the Chief Whip's report opens their profile. Diplomacy • Allies and rivals react more strongly to state visits, defence pacts, aid packages and visa deals. • Calls from world leaders show whether they come by phone or by video. Fixes and clearer screens, many from player reports • The home screen shows debt and the credit rating together, plus your party's latest poll share. • Bills and laws are grouped by government department, including a new Law & Order group. • Election results now shows the election that brought you to power. • The Budget reaction email responds to each change you make. • The Approval screen shows where you stand with each media outlet. • Green always means good for you and red bad for you, whichever way a number moves. • Country statistics show their units, and some have clearer homes: inequality and the North–South wage gap under Workers, poverty under Wellbeing, life expectancy under Demographics. • The Military Pact is now the Defence & Security Pact. • Cancelling a project now stops its spending and charges a one-off cancellation cost. Cancelling or mothballing HS2 changes the project itself, and a mothballed project can be resumed. • Foreign aid choices show their real cost. • Three crises that could not be resolved now can be. • Crisis scenarios now start with the deficit they describe. • Weather events follow the seasons. • The Budget screen now says what the statutory spending cap really does, and you can repeal the cap from Laws in force. • The High Speed Rail bill now costs what it says: about £3bn a year for 12 years. It was charging the full £38bn every year.

What's new * fix - World Leaders screen text colour Armed forces - New: the Armed Forces screen, under More. The Army, Royal Navy and RAF rise or fall with defence spending. Run recruitment drives, build ships, submarines and jets, and see what sending forces to a war costs and leaves at home. Press conferences - Press conferences now hold you to your promises. A journalist may follow up on a pledge you have not kept, and claiming you delivered one you have not will be caught, at a cost. Parliament - Free votes are explained. On a conscience vote such as assisted dying, the game tells you at the moment you decide that the whips cannot be used, and the whip notification says the same. Every whip-removal briefing now names the bill. - Joining a war through Parliament now counts. Win the Commons deployment vote and your forces are committed to the conflict it authorised. - Election results in More now shows the constituency map for every general election in your career. - Referendum bills read clearly. When a referendum bill clears the Commons, the game tells you it becomes law only if the referendum is won, and a No vote is reported as the bill being rejected. Minister briefs - A brief you ask for always arrives, even if the bill or project is decided first or an election comes in between. Your recent briefs are kept under More, Previous briefs. World affairs - Peace talks (available since 2.4.2): you can broker peace in a war. Convene talks from a leader's panel in World Leaders, draft the terms, put them to both sides and take their counter-offers back into the deal. Every conflict card in World Relationships shows how close peace is. - Trade deals you sign now show what was agreed, what it cost and what it changed. - World leaders now change over a long game. New governments take office abroad, and some bring a change of tone towards Britain. - From your second term, lobby groups bring new asks suited to a government that has been in power for a while. Home affairs - Build prison capacity as a project. Prison overcrowding now depends on how much space you have, and the overcrowding event explains what caused it. - The inflation screen now explains that government spending and debt do not move inflation. - Laws in force now shows which laws you inherited and how long they have been on the statute book. Fixes - Second and later terms now get the full range of wars, story arcs, crises and news. A timing bug had been blocking some of them after your first term. - Strike settlements, and other recurring commitments, no longer stack up when the same event returns. Saves already affected repair themselves when loaded. - Radio campaign promises are no longer marked broken at the start of a new term, and a promise the game gives you no way to deliver is no longer counted against you. - Newspapers in a second or later term no longer repeat stories from your first term. - Recurring events that came round too often late in a long game now wait out their cooldowns. - Questions, headlines and briefings no longer refer to things that did not happen in your game, or get their timing wrong. - Withdrawing a bill you whipped no longer adds to sleaze; sleaze now comes only from losing the vote. - After you survive a no-confidence vote, the one-year wait before another can be called now carries on through a general election. - Pay and crisis settlements now run for five years, and settling a strike now reduces strike days. - Committing publicly to NATO's 2.5% target now sets defence spending to 2.5% of GDP, so the question stops coming back. - Most yearly payments from deals, decisions and agreements with other countries now show up in your budget. - PMQs no longer blames you for laws you inherited, or attacks you over NHS promises you never made. - Plus many smaller fixes.

What's new Armed forces - New: the Armed Forces screen, under More. The Army, Royal Navy and RAF rise or fall with defence spending. Run recruitment drives, build ships, submarines and jets, and see what sending forces to a war costs and leaves at home. Press conferences - Press conferences now hold you to your promises. A journalist may follow up on a pledge you have not kept, and claiming you delivered one you have not will be caught, at a cost. Parliament - Free votes are explained. On a conscience vote such as assisted dying, the game tells you at the moment you decide that the whips cannot be used, and the whip notification says the same. Every whip-removal briefing now names the bill. - Joining a war through Parliament now counts. Win the Commons deployment vote and your forces are committed to the conflict it authorised. - Election results in More now shows the constituency map for every general election in your career. - Referendum bills read clearly. When a referendum bill clears the Commons, the game tells you it becomes law only if the referendum is won, and a No vote is reported as the bill being rejected. Minister briefs - A brief you ask for always arrives, even if the bill or project is decided first or an election comes in between. Your recent briefs are kept under More, Previous briefs. World affairs - Peace talks (available since 2.4.2): you can broker peace in a war. Convene talks from a leader's panel in World Leaders, draft the terms, put them to both sides and take their counter-offers back into the deal. Every conflict card in World Relationships shows how close peace is. - Trade deals you sign now show what was agreed, what it cost and what it changed. - World leaders now change over a long game. New governments take office abroad, and some bring a change of tone towards Britain. - From your second term, lobby groups bring new asks suited to a government that has been in power for a while. Home affairs - Build prison capacity as a project. Prison overcrowding now depends on how much space you have, and the overcrowding event explains what caused it. - The inflation screen now explains that government spending and debt do not move inflation. - Laws in force now shows which laws you inherited and how long they have been on the statute book. Fixes - Second and later terms now get the full range of wars, story arcs, crises and news. A timing bug had been blocking some of them after your first term. - Strike settlements, and other recurring commitments, no longer stack up when the same event returns. Saves already affected repair themselves when loaded. - Radio campaign promises are no longer marked broken at the start of a new term, and a promise the game gives you no way to deliver is no longer counted against you. - Newspapers in a second or later term no longer repeat stories from your first term. - Recurring events that came round too often late in a long game now wait out their cooldowns. - Questions, headlines and briefings no longer refer to things that did not happen in your game, or get their timing wrong. - Withdrawing a bill you whipped no longer adds to sleaze; sleaze now comes only from losing the vote. - After you survive a no-confidence vote, the one-year wait before another can be called now carries on through a general election. - Pay and crisis settlements now run for five years, and settling a strike now reduces strike days. - Committing publicly to NATO's 2.5% target now sets defence spending to 2.5% of GDP, so the question stops coming back. - Most yearly payments from deals, decisions and agreements with other countries now show up in your budget. - PMQs no longer blames you for laws you inherited, or attacks you over NHS promises you never made. - Plus many smaller fixes.

• Coalition partners now get their own section at the top of the cabinet picker, and the partner party's leader can be appointed, Deputy PM included • Multi-party coalitions display correctly: every partner sits on the government benches and your majority counts the full bloc • A minister fired over a scandal is no longer offered their old job back, and the same scandal cannot repeat on the same minister • Fixes a bug that left your party short of MPs after a coalition ended; saves repair automatically

What's New in 2.4.4 Your promises now play fair. Manifesto tax pledges only offer rates the Budget can actually deliver, a promise to raise a rate is only kept when the rate gets there, and a pledge blocked by events now tells you why. If an old save carried an impossible promise, it is quietly healed into a deliverable one. The NHS funding pledge is fixed. Delivering the money through the Budget now counts, and saves where the bill vanished while the papers attacked you are repaired automatically. Bills show their journey. Every active bill now displays where it sits in the Commons, from second reading through committee to the vote. You can still call the division early, and the game is honest about what that locks in. Wars can end. Peace talks open up when you are fighting on several fronts, and oil prices respond when a war winds down instead of staying stuck at the top. Sharper government. Pay settlements replace one another instead of piling up, and settling a dispute actually calms the strikes. Aligning capital gains with income tax now changes the real rate, priced by the size of the change. A clearer election night. A key now explains the seat markers on the results feed, and How To Play gains sections on reading election night and on proportional representation. Plus: two crash fixes, on-screen notifications that stay up long enough to read, planted PMQs questions that sound like your own benches, and dozens of smaller improvements.

2.4.3 — a fast fix for a stuck screen Some players found themselves stuck on a briefing from Kate about a local promise, with no way to respond or leave. That's fixed — and any briefing already affected in your inbox will show its buttons again the moment you update. For players who've bought the full game: the game now double-checks your purchase proof on every screen that could ever ask for it, so a slow connection at launch can no longer briefly lock you out of a game you own. Everything from yesterday's big fixes update is included. Thanks to the players who reported these within hours — that speed is what made this update possible.

2.4.2 — the big fixes update Black screen fixed. The rare permanent black screen after winning re-election is gone, and if an older save was ever stranded by it, the game now offers to recover your career on launch. Stuck EU membership repaired. Saves where EU accession finished but membership never arrived now fix themselves: you either become a member properly or the contribution stops. Kate will tell you which. Back up your career. Settings now lets you export your save as a code and import it on any device. Your record follows you. Parliament and the press now remember what you actually did. Broker a peace that later collapses, or repeal an act you once championed, and expect to answer for it years later. A living late game. The world stays quiet for a full year after your last conflict resolves, then new flashpoints, fraying ceasefires and successor disputes keep long careers busy without ever piling on. Local promises you can actually keep. Promises made on town visits now show exactly what is measured, the target, and the deadline, and Kate reports the outcome either way. You also get more time to deliver. Also in this update: backing allies with an arms package now genuinely shifts a war's balance, war reports always name the countries involved, repeated headlines and back-to-back scandal stories are gone, a hawk Chancellor can be overruled at a political cost, and dozens of smaller fixes across PMQs, trade and the whip's office. Thanks to everyone who sent reports — most of this update came directly from them.

This update is built on your reports. Thank you for sending them. • CABINET DECISIONS, PUT RIGHT: Choosing an option in a cabinet meeting no longer shows as "dismissed". The card now confirms the choice you made and shows what your decision did. • RESHUFFLES REWORKED: The candidate picker now stays with you until your appointment goes through, so a swap can never leave you staring at an unchanged cabinet. Announcing a reshuffle and standing it down without changes no longer costs cabinet loyalty. • TRADE DEALS, EASIER TO FIND: When you sign a deal, the game now tells you where it lives. Every active deal, promise and standing request is under More, Foreign Affairs, Trade Deals tracker. • ENDING WARS, EXPLAINED: A new How to Play section covers how conflicts de-escalate and end, so the path to peace is written down instead of guessed at. • FUEL PRICES, EXPLAINED: A briefing now explains the oil premium when conflict moves the market, and the stat detail names what is driving it. • ACCESSIBILITY: VoiceOver and TalkBack now read the game's cards properly across the app, and every button stays reachable with a screen reader. Plus stability improvements under the hood. Keep the feedback coming. A lot of what you just read started as a player report.

IN THIS UPDATE - The wealth tax and the education settlement now carry their full recurring effects year on year - Clearer help screens that describe how the game actually works - Hundreds of text, grammar and question fixes across the whole game - Purchase reliability improvements and many bug fixes

Version 2.3.0 Fixes - Fixed a rare issue where the game could get stuck on a loading or black screen when starting a new term after an election. The game now recovers and resumes your save. - Smoother, faster election night. New: bring a war to an end - You can now steer a world conflict toward peace. Take the peace option in the diplomacy calls that reach your inbox, and press a world leader for a ceasefire directly from the World Leaders screen. Bring a war's intensity down far enough and you can end it. PMQs and the press - The opposition now goes after what you actually did: a contentious bill before the House, a Budget that cut a frontline service, a lost Commons vote, or your lobbying decisions. - Less repetition in the attacks you face, and clearer framing on every question. Budget - Opening the Budget no longer changes any tax you did not touch. - Fixed reactions that misread a tax cut as a tax rise. Cabinet and delivery - Cabinet decisions now put real choices in front of you, with consequences. - Passing a bill can trigger follow up events, and taking credit too early can come back to help or haunt you. Plus a wide range of writing fixes and smaller improvements across the game.

This update makes the world react to you more — and makes it far clearer why. Wars can now be ended. Sustained diplomacy can bring the ongoing conflicts to a real, hard-won peace, rather than grinding on forever. Peace is earned over a campaign, and a settled war can still flare up again down the line. Voters feel real. Every demographic now responds to your actual record instead of drifting to the top. Court a group and they warm to you; push through what they oppose and it genuinely costs you. Sharper Prime Minister's Questions. The opposition hits closer to home — lost councils, broken pledges, coalition strains, and the crises of the day. See why things happened. Clearer readouts across the game: a brokered peace lands in your inbox, local election results spell out their real cost, the game-over screen names the reason you actually lost, and the economy screens now show what's driving inflation and debt, plus the deficit as a share of GDP. A more believable world. Foreign leaders change over time and arrive with a proper briefing, the newspapers stop repeating the same stories, and committing forces to a conflict now goes to a vote in the Commons. Plus a wide range of stability, balance, and correctness fixes, and a rebuild on the latest technology for smoother, more reliable performance. Also a fix for players that have got stuck on a screen.

What's New - World Conflicts (living world). A rolling set of foreign crises and wars across five regions. Choose your posture — support an ally, broker a ceasefire, deploy, or stay out — with real fallout in Parliament, the press, and the economy (oil, inflation). - Laws in Force. A proper statute book showing every law currently in force, including the real laws you inherit at the start of government. - Repeal. Tear up an enacted law with a Commons vote. Repeal now fully reverses the law's spending, debt, and effects — a repealed law is genuinely undone. - Devolution & secession improvements. Scotland and Wales can pursue independence. If they leave, they become sovereign states — with their own First Ministers (now fully illustrated) to negotiate with. - Investment opportunities. A strong economy unlocks inward-investment offers, each a choice between growth now and a cost later. - A world that moves on. Foreign leaders change over the years through their own elections and successions. Improved & fixed - Repeal fully unwinds a law's effects. - Fixed cases where internal labels could show raw/placeholder text. - Save-loading and stability improvements; economic figures can no longer display as "NaN". - Numerous balance and polish fixes across bills, budgets, PMQs, and the press.

New - World Conflicts (living world). A rolling set of foreign crises and wars across five regions. Choose your posture — support an ally, broker a ceasefire, deploy, or stay out — with real fallout in Parliament, the press, and the economy (oil, inflation). [Confirm if new vs 2.0.x — this shipped on the 2.0.4 line.] - Laws in Force. A proper statute book showing every law currently in force, including the real laws you inherit at the start of government. - Repeal. Tear up an enacted law with a Commons vote. Repeal now fully reverses the law's spending, debt, and effects — a repealed law is genuinely undone. - Devolution & secession improvements. Scotland and Wales can pursue independence. If they leave, they become sovereign states — with their own First Ministers (now fully illustrated) to negotiate with. - Investment opportunities. A strong economy unlocks inward-investment offers, each a choice between growth now and a cost later. - A world that moves on. Foreign leaders change over the years through their own elections and successions. Improved & fixed - Repeal fully unwinds a law's effects (previously it could leave some behind). - Fixed cases where internal labels could show raw/placeholder text. - Save-loading and stability improvements; economic figures can no longer display as "NaN". - Numerous balance and polish fixes across bills, budgets, PMQs, and the press.

Entitlement bug fix for players stuck on initial splash screen.

The biggest update yet - a new era for the game. and a huge amount shaped by your feedback. A living world that fights and makes peace. Real ongoing conflicts now sit on a world stage that escalates on its own. Take a posture, hold Commons votes on military deployment, mediate, back-channel, deploy peacekeepers, or impose sanctions with real teeth - and a war you cool can settle into a lasting ceasefire and a brokered peace, with the front pages and your standing responding either way. New wars can even erupt when relationships you've soured finally boil over. Every seat, counted. General elections are now a full 650-constituency, seat-by-seat count with a hex map of the country, a real per-party breakdown, and a skip-ahead so results never drag. A House that votes like real MPs. Bill divisions now tally how each MP actually votes - your own rebels by faction, the opposition by ideology so the pass forecast reflects the real chamber, not a black box. And your party has wings that push back: govern against your base and you'll feel it. Your past comes back to haunt you. A career ledger remembers your choices and scandals and resurfaces them - at Prime Minister's Questions, in the press, in debates, on the campaign trail. Weighty decisions arrive as a call. Landmark dilemmas. A Lords appointment, a donor's offer, a new Bank of England Governor, an inquiry chair - now play out as full branching decision calls, each with consequences down the line. Fund and fight a real campaign. A campaign war-chest, a roster of donors with strings attached, and a Campaign HQ where you choose how to spend each week run clean, or take tainted money for firepower and a corruption trail. A richer world of diplomacy. World leaders now have relationships with each other, not just with you visible on a new World Relationships screen. Aid, trade, and sanctions are one connected web: help a leader through a disaster and it can unlock a trade deal later; snub them and expect tariffs. New constitutional horizons. Build a CANZUK union or pursue EU accession as multi-phase national projects. Plus new Regional Mayors that are party aligned do you fund the opposition or just your own Mayors, a crime index, an expanded radio phone-in, and a game that adapts if the monarchy is abolished. And under the hood, reliability you asked for. Purchases now stick reliably (a background issue that could re-lock paying players is fixed at the source). Vote forecasts match real results. Coalitions count their seats correctly and pass the bills their partners support. Brokered ceasefires are properly reported. Plus a rolling save backup so a bad write can't cost you your game — and dozens of bug fixes and clarity improvements throughout. *More bug fixes. As always I read every piece of feedback, and this update is full of things that came straight from players. Thank you. Keep it coming.

The biggest update yet - a new era for the game. and a huge amount shaped by your feedback. A living world that fights and makes peace. Real ongoing conflicts now sit on a world stage that escalates on its own. Take a posture, hold Commons votes on military deployment, mediate, back-channel, deploy peacekeepers, or impose sanctions with real teeth - and a war you cool can settle into a lasting ceasefire and a brokered peace, with the front pages and your standing responding either way. New wars can even erupt when relationships you've soured finally boil over. Every seat, counted. General elections are now a full 650-constituency, seat-by-seat count with a hex map of the country, a real per-party breakdown, and a skip-ahead so results never drag. A House that votes like real MPs. Bill divisions now tally how each MP actually votes - your own rebels by faction, the opposition by ideology so the pass forecast reflects the real chamber, not a black box. And your party has wings that push back: govern against your base and you'll feel it. Your past comes back to haunt you. A career ledger remembers your choices and scandals and resurfaces them - at Prime Minister's Questions, in the press, in debates, on the campaign trail. Weighty decisions arrive as a call. Landmark dilemmas. A Lords appointment, a donor's offer, a new Bank of England Governor, an inquiry chair - now play out as full branching decision calls, each with consequences down the line. Fund and fight a real campaign. A campaign war-chest, a roster of donors with strings attached, and a Campaign HQ where you choose how to spend each week run clean, or take tainted money for firepower and a corruption trail. A richer world of diplomacy. World leaders now have relationships with each other, not just with you visible on a new World Relationships screen. Aid, trade, and sanctions are one connected web: help a leader through a disaster and it can unlock a trade deal later; snub them and expect tariffs. New constitutional horizons. Build a CANZUK union or pursue EU accession as multi-phase national projects. Plus new Regional Mayors that are party aligned do you fund the opposition or just your own Mayors, a crime index, an expanded radio phone-in, and a game that adapts if the monarchy is abolished. And under the hood, reliability you asked for. Purchases now stick reliably (a background issue that could re-lock paying players is fixed at the source). Vote forecasts match real results. Coalitions count their seats correctly and pass the bills their partners support. Brokered ceasefires are properly reported. Plus a rolling save backup so a bad write can't cost you your game — and dozens of bug fixes and clarity improvements throughout. As always I read every piece of feedback, and this update is full of things that came straight from players. Thank you. Keep it coming.

The biggest update yet - a new era for the game. and a huge amount shaped by your feedback. A living world that fights and makes peace. Real ongoing conflicts now sit on a world stage that escalates on its own. Take a posture, hold Commons votes on military deployment, mediate, back-channel, deploy peacekeepers, or impose sanctions with real teeth - and a war you cool can settle into a lasting ceasefire and a brokered peace, with the front pages and your standing responding either way. New wars can even erupt when relationships you've soured finally boil over. Every seat, counted. General elections are now a full 650-constituency, seat-by-seat count with a hex map of the country, a real per-party breakdown, and a skip-ahead so results never drag. A House that votes like real MPs. Bill divisions now tally how each MP actually votes - your own rebels by faction, the opposition by ideology so the pass forecast reflects the real chamber, not a black box. And your party has wings that push back: govern against your base and you'll feel it. Your past comes back to haunt you. A career ledger remembers your choices and scandals and resurfaces them - at Prime Minister's Questions, in the press, in debates, on the campaign trail. Weighty decisions arrive as a call. Landmark dilemmas. A Lords appointment, a donor's offer, a new Bank of England Governor, an inquiry chair - now play out as full branching decision calls, each with consequences down the line. Fund and fight a real campaign. A campaign war-chest, a roster of donors with strings attached, and a Campaign HQ where you choose how to spend each week run clean, or take tainted money for firepower and a corruption trail. A richer world of diplomacy. World leaders now have relationships with each other, not just with you visible on a new World Relationships screen. Aid, trade, and sanctions are one connected web: help a leader through a disaster and it can unlock a trade deal later; snub them and expect tariffs. New constitutional horizons. Build a CANZUK union or pursue EU accession as multi-phase national projects. Plus new Regional Mayors that are party aligned do you fund the opposition or just your own Mayors, a crime index, an expanded radio phone-in, and a game that adapts if the monarchy is abolished. And under the hood, reliability you asked for. Purchases now stick reliably (a background issue that could re-lock paying players is fixed at the source). Vote forecasts match real results. Coalitions count their seats correctly and pass the bills their partners support. Brokered ceasefires are properly reported. Plus a rolling save backup so a bad write can't cost you your game — and dozens of bug fixes and clarity improvements throughout. As always I read every piece of feedback, and this update is full of things that came straight from players. Thank you. Keep it coming.

The biggest update yet - a new era for the game. and a huge amount shaped by your feedback. A living world that fights and makes peace. Real ongoing conflicts now sit on a world stage that escalates on its own. Take a posture, hold Commons votes on military deployment, mediate, back-channel, deploy peacekeepers, or impose sanctions with real teeth - and a war you cool can settle into a lasting ceasefire and a brokered peace, with the front pages and your standing responding either way. New wars can even erupt when relationships you've soured finally boil over. Every seat, counted. General elections are now a full 650-constituency, seat-by-seat count with a hex map of the country, a real per-party breakdown, and a skip-ahead so results never drag. A House that votes like real MPs. Bill divisions now tally how each MP actually votes - your own rebels by faction, the opposition by ideology so the pass forecast reflects the real chamber, not a black box. And your party has wings that push back: govern against your base and you'll feel it. Your past comes back to haunt you. A career ledger remembers your choices and scandals and resurfaces them - at Prime Minister's Questions, in the press, in debates, on the campaign trail. Weighty decisions arrive as a call. Landmark dilemmas. A Lords appointment, a donor's offer, a new Bank of England Governor, an inquiry chair - now play out as full branching decision calls, each with consequences down the line. Fund and fight a real campaign. A campaign war-chest, a roster of donors with strings attached, and a Campaign HQ where you choose how to spend each week run clean, or take tainted money for firepower and a corruption trail. A richer world of diplomacy. World leaders now have relationships with each other, not just with you visible on a new World Relationships screen. Aid, trade, and sanctions are one connected web: help a leader through a disaster and it can unlock a trade deal later; snub them and expect tariffs. New constitutional horizons. Build a CANZUK union or pursue EU accession as multi-phase national projects. Plus new Regional Mayors that are party aligned do you fund the opposition or just your own Mayors, a crime index, an expanded radio phone-in, and a game that adapts if the monarchy is abolished. And under the hood, reliability you asked for. Purchases now stick reliably (a background issue that could re-lock paying players is fixed at the source). Vote forecasts match real results. Coalitions count their seats correctly and pass the bills their partners support. Brokered ceasefires are properly reported. Plus a rolling save backup so a bad write can't cost you your game — and dozens of bug fixes and clarity improvements throughout. As always I read every piece of feedback, and this update is full of things that came straight from players. Thank you. Keep it coming.

The biggest update yet - a new era for the game. and a huge amount shaped by your feedback. A living world that fights and makes peace. Real ongoing conflicts now sit on a world stage that escalates on its own. Take a posture, hold Commons votes on military deployment, mediate, back-channel, deploy peacekeepers, or impose sanctions with real teeth - and a war you cool can settle into a lasting ceasefire and a brokered peace, with the front pages and your standing responding either way. New wars can even erupt when relationships you've soured finally boil over. Every seat, counted. General elections are now a full 650-constituency, seat-by-seat count with a hex map of the country, a real per-party breakdown, and a skip-ahead so results never drag. A House that votes like real MPs. Bill divisions now tally how each MP actually votes - your own rebels by faction, the opposition by ideology so the pass forecast reflects the real chamber, not a black box. And your party has wings that push back: govern against your base and you'll feel it. Your past comes back to haunt you. A career ledger remembers your choices and scandals and resurfaces them - at Prime Minister's Questions, in the press, in debates, on the campaign trail. Weighty decisions arrive as a call. Landmark dilemmas. A Lords appointment, a donor's offer, a new Bank of England Governor, an inquiry chair - now play out as full branching decision calls, each with consequences down the line. Fund and fight a real campaign. A campaign war-chest, a roster of donors with strings attached, and a Campaign HQ where you choose how to spend each week run clean, or take tainted money for firepower and a corruption trail. A richer world of diplomacy. World leaders now have relationships with each other, not just with you visible on a new World Relationships screen. Aid, trade, and sanctions are one connected web: help a leader through a disaster and it can unlock a trade deal later; snub them and expect tariffs. New constitutional horizons. Build a CANZUK union or pursue EU accession as multi-phase national projects. Plus new Regional Mayors that are party aligned do you fund the opposition or just your own Mayors, a crime index, an expanded radio phone-in, and a game that adapts if the monarchy is abolished. And under the hood, reliability you asked for. Purchases now stick reliably (a background issue that could re-lock paying players is fixed at the source). Vote forecasts match real results. Coalitions count their seats correctly and pass the bills their partners support. Brokered ceasefires are properly reported. Plus a rolling save backup so a bad write can't cost you your game — and dozens of smaller fixes and clarity improvements throughout. As always I read every piece of feedback, and this update is full of things that came straight from players. Thank you. Keep it coming.

The biggest update yet - a new era for the game. and a huge amount shaped by your feedback. A living world that fights and makes peace. Real ongoing conflicts now sit on a world stage that escalates on its own. Take a posture, hold Commons votes on military deployment, mediate, back-channel, deploy peacekeepers, or impose sanctions with real teeth - and a war you cool can settle into a lasting ceasefire and a brokered peace, with the front pages and your standing responding either way. New wars can even erupt when relationships you've soured finally boil over. Every seat, counted. General elections are now a full 650-constituency, seat-by-seat count with a hex map of the country, a real per-party breakdown, and a skip-ahead so results never drag. A House that votes like real MPs. Bill divisions now tally how each MP actually votes - your own rebels by faction, the opposition by ideology so the pass forecast reflects the real chamber, not a black box. And your party has wings that push back: govern against your base and you'll feel it. Your past comes back to haunt you. A career ledger remembers your choices and scandals and resurfaces them - at Prime Minister's Questions, in the press, in debates, on the campaign trail. Weighty decisions arrive as a call. Landmark dilemmas. A Lords appointment, a donor's offer, a new Bank of England Governor, an inquiry chair - now play out as full branching decision calls, each with consequences down the line. Fund and fight a real campaign. A campaign war-chest, a roster of donors with strings attached, and a Campaign HQ where you choose how to spend each week run clean, or take tainted money for firepower and a corruption trail. A richer world of diplomacy. World leaders now have relationships with each other, not just with you visible on a new World Relationships screen. Aid, trade, and sanctions are one connected web: help a leader through a disaster and it can unlock a trade deal later; snub them and expect tariffs. New constitutional horizons. Build a CANZUK union or pursue EU accession as multi-phase national projects. Plus new Regional Mayors that are party aligned do you fund the opposition or just your own Mayors, a crime index, an expanded radio phone-in, and a game that adapts if the monarchy is abolished. And under the hood, reliability you asked for. Purchases now stick reliably (a background issue that could re-lock paying players is fixed at the source). Vote forecasts match real results. Coalitions count their seats correctly and pass the bills their partners support. Brokered ceasefires are properly reported. Plus a rolling save backup so a bad write can't cost you your game — and dozens of smaller fixes and clarity improvements throughout. As always I read every piece of feedback, and this update is full of things that came straight from players. Thank you. Keep it coming.

The biggest update yet. 650-SEAT ELECTION NIGHT Election night is now fought across all 650 constituencies on a live hex map of Britain. Watch the count come in seat by seat, marginals fall, and bellwethers break — with rolling pundit commentary calling the night as it unfolds. Real coalitions, hung parliaments, and the scramble to form a government when no one wins outright. Choose your declaration speed and feel the tension build. WORLD CONFLICTS A new geopolitics layer. Wars ignite, escalate, freeze, and resolve around the world — and they reach your desk. Commit support, broker peace, or stay out of it, and live with the consequences at home: oil prices, inflation, the press, and your own backbenchers. MORE OF WHAT THE COUNTRY THROWS AT YOU TV debates you can genuinely lose Scandal-triggered by-elections that chip away at your majority A full named roster of MPs — track loyalty, hand out cabinet jobs, manage the awkward ones The Chief Whip's office: see who's slipping, and why, before a rebellion forms Reactive PMQs and a press pack that responds to the choices you actually make Pick your own constituency — and watch the opposition needle you about it Coalition partners clearly shown across your cabinet Choose your side in referendums and fight the campaign your way A DEEPER SIMULATION The country reacts to everything you do across a wide web of national indicators — the economy, the NHS, housing, the environment, and more. Push things too far and the crises come. Govern well and the country rewards you. CANZUK & THE LONG GAME New long-term strategic options for governments thinking beyond the next election. GOT AN IDEA? Want a feature or a bill added to the game? Suggestions are always welcome just tap "Submit a Report" in Settings. This update is built on player feedback, and the next one will be too. Plus dozens of fixes and refinements from your reports and reviews. As always: no ads, no nonsense. Made by a solo developer who reads everything you send.

The biggest update yet. 650-SEAT ELECTION NIGHT Election night is now fought across all 650 constituencies on a live hex map of Britain. Watch the count come in seat by seat, marginals fall, and bellwethers break — with rolling pundit commentary calling the night as it unfolds. Real coalitions, hung parliaments, and the scramble to form a government when no one wins outright. Choose your declaration speed and feel the tension build. WORLD CONFLICTS A new geopolitics layer. Wars ignite, escalate, freeze, and resolve around the world — and they reach your desk. Commit support, broker peace, or stay out of it, and live with the consequences at home: oil prices, inflation, the press, and your own backbenchers. MORE OF WHAT THE COUNTRY THROWS AT YOU TV debates you can genuinely lose Scandal-triggered by-elections that chip away at your majority A full named roster of MPs — track loyalty, hand out cabinet jobs, manage the awkward ones The Chief Whip's office: see who's slipping, and why, before a rebellion forms Reactive PMQs and a press pack that responds to the choices you actually make Pick your own constituency — and watch the opposition needle you about it Coalition partners clearly shown across your cabinet Choose your side in referendums and fight the campaign your way A DEEPER SIMULATION The country reacts to everything you do across a wide web of national indicators — the economy, the NHS, housing, the environment, and more. Push things too far and the crises come. Govern well and the country rewards you. CANZUK & THE LONG GAME New long-term strategic options for governments thinking beyond the next election. GOT AN IDEA? Want a feature or a bill added to the game? Suggestions are always welcome just tap "Submit a Report" in Settings. This update is built on player feedback, and the next one will be too. Plus dozens of fixes and refinements from your reports and reviews. As always: no ads, no nonsense. Made by a solo developer who reads everything you send.

Your decisions now shape the country. • REAL CONSEQUENCES — The bills you pass, the budgets you set and the projects you build now move all the nation's stats. Fund the NHS and waiting lists come down; back housebuilding and homes get more affordable; invest in jobs and unemployment falls; let a problem fester and it grows. Govern well across a full term and the numbers reflect it. • NEW LEGISLATION — A fresh slate of bills for the despatch box: planning reform, a National Cancer Strategy, a Women's Health Strategy, pay transparency, clean air and clean rivers, the EV transition, SEN funding, children's mental health — and a Debt Management Bill to win back the nation's credit rating. • TRUER TO YOUR GOVERNMENT — Your party and your record now carry through consistently, from election night to PMQs. The story always matches the government you're actually leading. • FAIRER COMMONS — PMQs and the lobby stick to what you've genuinely done. No more being asked about decisions you never made. • Plus a wave of balance and stability improvements under the hood. Thank you for playing PM Simulator — a lot of this update came straight from your reviews. Keep the feedback coming.

What's New in 1.7 — the biggest update yet. IN-GAME AUDIO Menu music and soundbytes added through the game REFERENDUMS Put the great questions to the country: EU membership, Scottish and Welsh independence, an NI border poll, House of Lords abolition — even the monarchy. Wrangle a split cabinet, launch get-out-the-vote drives, raise the stakes — then govern through an aftermath that can reshape the union for good. LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES EXPANSION Your own party can now move against you — 1922-Committee style — before the Commons ever gets a vote of no confidence. Spot the ringleader, buy their silence, or face the men in grey suits. A TREASURY THAT BITES Hawk and Dove chancellors, Push tax too far and the Laffer curve pushes back. Read three-year OBR forecasts, set departmental budgets, and watch mortgage distress hit households when rates climb. LOCAL ELECTIONS EXPANSIONS Tour the bellwether towns and meet voters on the doorstep — answering for the issues that actually decide council seats, from potholes and council tax to GP waits. SMARTER CAMPAIGNS Choose your strategy — go negative, run positive, or win the air war — track approval across all four nations, and spend your campaign energy wisely. ON THE WORLD STAGE Host state visits, negotiate trade deals, and manage world leaders with clear cooldown timers. Plus sharper PMQs and lobby scrutiny, a more realistic Commons division, and dozens of fixes and refinements throughout. Bug fixes and optimisations as always Thanks for playing — Number 10 awaits.

Here's what's in v1.6 Major new systems World leaders expansion and new trade mechanics The 13 world leaders have been expanded to 32. They track what you promised them, when, and whether you kept your word. Break a pledge — there's a 3% weekly chance they'll call you on it publicly. Trade deals can be renegotiated 8 weeks out, auto-renegotiated at 4. Each leader now has 10 demands, 10 offers, 20 triggers and 5 quotable phrases in their own voice. New Diplomatic Flow screen for state visits, military pacts, aid packages, trade deals and visas. New Multilateral Coordination screen for working four allies on a shared objective at once. Inflation with five levers You now have five tools: Fiscal Stance with a CPI anchor, supply-side bills, tax tools, your relationship with the Bank of England, and your energy package. Stack-decay prevents compounding tricks. Suppress too hard and Kate will flag it. Bring inflation down responsibly and you'll bank a Disinflation achievement. PMQs expansion and more gated questions New questions. Round 3 can now react to how you answered round 2 — and the opposition leaders have their own voice for it (25 reactive variants across 5 strategies and 5 attack styles). 45 new questions are gated on diplomatic moves you've actually made. Your running figures — small boats arrivals, the deficit, the asylum backlog — now substitute into response text too, not just questions, so the back-and-forth uses your real numbers. Election engine rebalanced A cube-law 9-band model. Pledges only protect you if you're actually on track. Kept-pledge bonus caps cleaner. Landslides land less often (threshold raised from 49% to 51%). New "Voters reward your record" row on the polls screen shows the direct impact of your governance. Leaders of opposition can get sacked and replaced, opposition is now calculated on seat count of elections. Seat-driven opposition resolver 6-deep rotation with 48 different identities The smaller cuts Journalist outlet-voice intros — lobby coverage finally sounds different by paper Cabinet briefings and project surfaces now have proper cooldowns King's Speech can no longer be interrupted by a foreign call New pothole class-action inbox item wired up and gated to the relevant project QA / bugfixes Too many to list...