Track the pillars that matter to you, and build your own view of how Britain should spend its money — then see how it compares to reality.
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You have 100% to allocate across categories, and every slider starts at what Britain actually spends today, so you can see exactly how big a change you're making as you drag — not guess blind. Drag the ⠿ handle to reorder by priority, and move a slider to change a category's share of your budget; increase one and your total rises above 100% until you take an equivalent amount from somewhere else, same as a real budget. We translate your 100% into real terms as you go — % of GDP and £bn/yr — using 43.5% of GDP as today's actual total for everything adjustable. Debt interest (3.6% of GDP, below) is fixed — it's the cost of borrowing already done, not a lever available this year. That 43.5% figure currently sums to slightly more than Britain's official total spending (44.7% of GDP) due to a known local/devolved government double-counting issue — see the Public Spending Overview for the full explanation. Treat this as approximately right, not exact.
This tool is designed to make trade-offs visible, not to let you "solve" the budget with a single lever — it isn't a governing simulation, it's meant to make you engage with what a real choice actually costs elsewhere. It's tempting to assume there's one easy fix hiding in a small, symbolic line item. The numbers below tell a different story: the categories most people reach for first are a fraction of the size of welfare, health, and pensions — moving any of the big three by even a little means a real trade-off somewhere else, every time.