The Financial Times has launched the Chancellor Game: an interactive experience that challenges players to step into the shoes of the UK’s chief financial minister and devise a plan for the Budget.
How the Chancellor Game works
The game was created by the Financial Times with economic modelling provided by the Resolution Foundation, an independent think-tank.
Readers have six weeks to devise a plan and must answer questions on health, defence, investment, welfare and tax. They must stick to a set of fiscal rules, but they also need to keep their cabinet colleagues, the prime minister — and ultimately voters — happy.