Longest-serving Chancellor
Months in office before the PM, the markets, or the electorate had other ideas.
- 1 Mossman 236 months
Red BoxChancellor Simulation
You've just won the election — and inherited the books. Set the Budget, face the bond markets, negotiate with the unions, survive the front pages, and try to keep the keys to No. 11.
Survive longer than anyone else. Get out of No. 11 and into No. 10 faster than anyone else. Then last longest once you are there. They reward completely different games.
Months in office before the PM, the markets, or the electorate had other ideas.
Months served before the challenge that won the leadership. The only board where the smallest number wins.
Months at No. 10, counted from the day the keys changed hands.
Growth, prices, jobs, debt and the country's mood, scored after exactly 60 months.
Scores are reported by the game and checked against server-side plausibility bounds. Every entry carries the run's seed and engine version, so the whole run can be audited and moderated.
Sign in inside the game with a 6-digit email code — the same free UK Fact Check account as the news app — to track your bests. The boards are strictly opt-in.
You appear here only if you choose a public profile, under a display name you pick (never your email or username), with a generated cartoon portrait rather than a photo.
Two more games from the Red Box desk.
The keys to No. 10.
Built by UK Fact Check — the fact-checking project. The game teaches the real machinery: where the money comes from, where it goes, and why the Bank of England doesn't answer to the Chancellor.