Keir Starmer has resigned. Andy Burnham is the frontrunner to walk into Number 10, and the cabinet is his to name. Seat your own government, then see how close you got.
Build the cabinet you think Andy Burnham will appoint as Prime Minister, then score it against the forecast now and the real cabinet the moment he announces it.
Build the cabinet you think Andy Burnham will appoint as Prime Minister. Score against the forecast now, and against the real cabinet the moment he announces it. The closer you get, the higher you rank.
Fill all 27 seats. For each one, pick from the dropdown or type a wildcard name. Tools at the top: Pick for me (by a strategy), Randomise, or Clear. Bigger jobs score more, Chancellor is worth 100, Scotland 10. Watch the live Women/Men and North/South balance as you go.
The cheeky extra calls for extra points: will there be a Deputy PM, a brand-new cabinet post, who resigns first, the date of the first reshuffle, who gets parachuted into the Lords, and who takes the grace-and-favour homes. Dropdown or write-in.
See your score against the forecast now, and against reality once it is in. A beat-the-pundits benchmark shows whether you out-called the consensus. Flip the seat-by-seat breakdown, then download or share a result card.
When Burnham names his real cabinet, your prediction is scored against reality automatically, just reopen the game to see how you did and where you finished. Nothing to upload. (The host publishes the result once for everyone.)
Load pundits' and friends' completed answer sheets to rank everyone on one leaderboard, with an auto-built Consensus Cabinet, the most-picked person per seat, thrown in as a rival.
Scoring: points for the right person anywhere in the cabinet, plus seniority-weighted points for the right person in the right job, plus your Gossip Round calls. A perfect game is around 1,865.
The playful round. Beyond the seats: will Burnham keep a Deputy PM, invent a brand-new post, who resigns first, the date of the first reshuffle, who he parachutes into the Lords, and who gets the grace-and-favour homes. Pick from the list or write in anyone.
Seat your cabinet, play The Gossip Round, then press Reveal the result.
Pick a display nickname (no personal details, please) and submit. We store your nickname and your picks only, never your name or email. Your cabinet stays saved on this device, so you can come back any time to change it and submit again.
A different game. Forget who Burnham will pick. The BAV Best Countries study weights ten dimensions of national reputation by how much each drives GDP. Cast the minister best placed to lift each one, weighted toward where the UK has the most to gain. Soft power beats banks & tanks: Movers and Quality of Life matter most; Power barely registers, and the UK ranks near the bottom on its two biggest levers, Movers (#48) and Open for Business (#49).
One minister per lever. The closer their brief fits the dimension, the higher the score.
Editorial: the minister-to-dimension fit is derived from each person's real policy brief, a prompt for debate, not a precise metric. Best Countries measures perception that correlates with GDP, not a promise of growth. Source: WPP BAV Best Countries 2026.
When Andy Burnham names his cabinet, enter it here once and hit publish. Every player is then scored against reality automatically the next time they open the game, and the leaderboard becomes the final standings. Players upload nothing, you do it once for everyone.
Go down the seats below and pick the real appointee for each office from the list (type a write-in for any new face), set the real bonus answers, then click Save the real cabinet. The scoreboard switches to the real cabinet.
Prefer a spreadsheet? Optional, you can fill in the answer sheet and upload it instead:
Once the real cabinet is entered, click Publish to download results.json. Upload that one small file into your /cabinet/ folder on the website (right next to index.html). That is the whole job: from then on every player is auto-scored against reality, and the leaderboard re-ranks to the final standings.
Get a pundit or a friend to fill in the answer sheet (download it in the Plug in the real cabinet tab), then load each completed sheet here as a named contender. Everyone is ranked on one board, and once two or more have made picks the game builds a Consensus Cabinet, the most-picked person for every seat, as its own contender.
Name them, then upload their completed answer sheet, the same master sheet everyone fills in (Excel or CSV).