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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Zoe Williams

I put myself in the prime minister’s shoes – and learned some uncomfortable lessons

Screenshots from the political survival game No 10: Full Confidence.
Screenshots from the political survival game No 10: Full Confidence. Composite: Sleepy Boy Studios

No 10: Full Confidence is the game all the lobby journalists and backbenchers are playing on their phones. Westminster hasn’t been so united by an app since the early 2010s, when everyone was trying to figure out what David Cameron saw in Angry Birds.

The game is quite engrossing: you are the prime minister, taking office, and your name is Yusuf Dunmore. Popularity starts high in all the important areas – cabinet, backbenchers, the media, the public. But from there, every decision you are called upon to make, from nominating a chancellor to your answers at PMQs, confronts you with an invidious choice between one crisis and another.

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