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...

What's New in Version 1.5 Party Leadership Challenge Your own MPs can now move against you. If approval slumps, scandals mount, or PMQs losses pile up, letters of no confidence in your leadership begin to accumulate in the parliamentary party. Watch Kate's warnings, shore up your backbenchers and if the threshold is crossed, face a live ballot against a named challenger. Survive with a decisive majority and your authority is restored. Lose, and the premiership is over. For the bold: you can call the ballot yourself before the threshold is reached, on your own terms. Do you dare to take that risk? Smarter End-of-Term Report Bills passed, projects completed, and scandals faced now show your current-term record, not a running lifetime total. Multi-term players get a full career summary card on the results screen. Fairer Start to Every Game All four starting mandates now begin with zero hostile MPs. The parliamentary party may be fractious or uncertain, but day-one hostility has been removed, you now have time to govern before the knife comes out. Energy & Green Economy Renewable energy projects now reduce inflation as capacity comes online. The North Sea Oil & Gas Licensing bill produces visible revenue. Five energy bills gain proper GDP and economic effects. Expanded Help New help sections cover PM stats & traits, Chief Whip Briefings, no-confidence votes, and lobbying. The fiscal section now explains welfare drift, the interest cascade, and term carry-over. Updated UK Map on Election Night Mid-Term Budget Bug Fixes, Game Balancing Adjustments and Optimisations

Govern deeper — and steadier. This update expands what happens inside No. 10 and fixes a launch crash some players hit on the latest iOS. WHAT'S NEW • Your manifesto has teeth now. Pledges are tracked all term — the press, the opposition, and your own backbenchers will hold you to what you promised versus what you've actually delivered. • Party activists turn up at PMQs to push you on the causes your members care about. • Take office mid-stream: inherit live projects like HS2 and decide whether to back them or cancel them. • More to govern with — 180+ bills including flagship ideological legislation and policies you can revisit each term, a new NHS Workforce programme, and richer lobbying where meetings come back around. • Sharper world stage — leaders react to the specific topics you raise. • Fresh writing throughout: new PMQs and press-conference questions, hidden bill storylines, and callbacks to your own past decisions. FIXES & POLISH • Fixed a startup crash on some devices running the latest iOS. • End-of-term report now counts manifesto and King's Speech pledges — and your party alignment — correctly across multiple terms. • "Hold the line" pledges (no VAT rise, NATO commitment, and the like) no longer count as delivered before you've governed the term. • Budget cancellation now confirms first, plus many smaller balance and interface fixes. Thanks for playing — your feedback shapes what comes next.

Here's what's in v1.3   Major new systems - Parliamentary overhaul — Re-aligned the initial starting positions, cabinet briefing meetings and request briefs for bills from ministers. - Backstory prepend system — 39-tag pool, dedicated post-setup backstory screen with a Kate intro. - King's Speech arc   - Whip-removal mechanic — removing the whip creates independents who carry a grudge; grudge now tapers over time.   - 26-week hostile floor — once an MP turns hostile, positive effects can't heal them back out for 26 weeks (wavering→loyal stays free).   - No-confidence accumulation — hostile MPs compound across terms; surviving an NC vote now sends 50% of hostile MPs back to wavering. Pool-based event system — to increase randomisation 119-item unified event pool replacing the older scattered event sources.   Term Milestone System (4 phases) — Legacy tier, mandate boost, Legacy Institutions. Parliamentary pressure   - PMQs per-session opposition-strength roll — loss rate went 0% → ~13%.   - Pool events tagged with a mandatory parliament floor.    - Lobbying follow-up: delayed backbench drift + a once-per-term reckoning. Content expansion   - +54 landmark one-shot events (EVENTS_BANK 110 → 164), plus event repeatability/recycling on cooldown.   - Olympic & World Cup hosting-bid arcs with random outcomes.   - PMQs expansion — factual gating, 9 stat-aware questions, project-aware questions.   - Lobby request cadence randomised.   - Bill-vote Division cinematic.   Manifesto & bills      - Triple-lock manifesto pledge.   - Question-unlocked hidden bills (AI Regulation, Clean Air) with a Kate "ready to introduce" inbox note.   - North Sea windfall energy-cost follow-through.   Balance rebalance   - Cabinet difficulty T-curve reshape, stat-driven penalty levers (resilience/intellect/debt), per-term loyalty decay, forecast formula reshape.   - Oil price mean reversion + strategic-reserve lever.   QA / fixes Too many to list...

Build 1.2.0 (22) — What's New New election sequence Bellwether Local elections each term Proportional representation election model added for when that bill is passed. New no confidence sequence built. Party conference event added Reasons why you lost an election explainer Content pools and questions expansion throughout Black Swan: Random Events Pack is now part of the base game. Defeat explainer now counts every scandal you faced this term, not just the ones still live at the end. Plus the usual sweep of fixes and optimisations Carry on, Prime Minister.

Kate Holloway briefings: mid-term, eight-weeks-out, after first bill defeat Manifesto contradictions tracked: press drumbeat, PMQs cuts harder, voters notice Manifesto build: pledge count and Confirm button now stay visible while scrolling Expanded UK name pool across England, Wales and Scotland Various bug fixes