You're the new Chancellor, and your first Budget is the real one.

You're the new Chancellor, and your first Budget is the real one. Red Box is a strategy game about running Britain's economy, made by a news and fact-checking team from official OBR and Treasury figures.

Red Box: Chancellor Simulator puts you in No 11 in September 2026, with the country owing nearly £3 trillion and your first Budget due on 28 October, the same day as the real one. Every month the red box arrives full of decisions: a Health Secretary wants winter money, a newspaper is on deadline, the backbenches are in revolt. Set every tax, fund every department, then face the papers, the Cabinet and the voters. The game starts from official figures from the OBR, HM Treasury and the ONS. Made by UK Fact Check Politics. £2.99 on iPhone, iPad and Android.

You are the new Chancellor of the Exchequer. It is September 2026, the removal vans have gone, the Treasury's first submission is on your desk, and the country owes nearly £3 trillion. Your first Budget is the real one: 28 October 2026.

Red Box is a political strategy game about running Britain's economy, and about how it really works. Every month the red box arrives full of decisions. A Health Secretary wants winter money. A newspaper is on deadline. The backbenches are in revolt. A gilt auction went badly. Choose, and live with it.

Twice a year you stand at the despatch box. Drag every tax and every department's budget, see what you raise, spend and borrow, then deliver it to the House and read the front pages the next morning. The public, the Prime Minister, the Cabinet and the markets each rate you out of 100, and every decision moves at least one of them.

The books start from the official figures: debt near £3 trillion, borrowing of £115 billion a year, and debt interest that costs more than defence, drawn from the OBR, HM Treasury and the ONS. There are 287 facts to collect along the way.

£2.99, paid once. No ads and no subscription.

UK Fact Check Politics is a small independent news and fact-checking team covering UK politics, at ukfactcheck.com. It reports the news, checks claims made by politicians and in the media, and makes tools that help people understand how government works. Red Box is its first game.