Trade on what you already think you know
about politics.
A simulated market for political influence. Read the briefings, place your portfolio, see who reads Westminster better.
HOW IT WORKS
Three steps. The data does the work.
A simulated market for political influence — read the briefings, place your portfolio, see who reads Westminster better.
Read the data
Every politician has an Influence Quotient — a 0–100 score built from nine weighted dimensions: position, scrutiny, parliamentary activity, media, donations, network, electoral, experience, and public attention. Refreshed twice weekly. Methodology public.
Place your portfolio
Buy and sell politicians based on where you think their influence is heading. Short a backbencher losing committee seats. Go long on a rising front-bencher. The score moves when the data moves.
See who reads Westminster better
Compete with people who follow this as closely as you do. The leaderboard ranks every trader by portfolio performance. No participation trophies — your ranking is your read on UK politics.
PLATFORM FEATURES
What the Exchange gives you
A simulated market built on a published methodology. The score is the point; the trade is the test.
Influence Quotient
Every politician scored 0–100 across nine weighted dimensions. Refreshed twice weekly from 150,000+ sources. Methodology published.
Portfolio Management
Build and manage a portfolio of politicians. Track your positions against the score movements that drive them.
Politician + Party Markets
Trade across both individual politicians and party-level markets. Two ways to read Westminster.
Trend Analysis
See which figures are rising and falling before the news catches up. The velocity indicator tracks 7-day and 30-day movement.
Methodology in Public
Dimensions, weights, data sources, a worked example, stated limitations. A journalist can quote how we score a figure without emailing us.
Leaderboard
Ranked by portfolio performance. Your position is your read on UK politics — not your followers, not your tenure.
GET STARTED
Read the briefings. Place your position.
A simulated market for political influence. No credit card required — start with a free account and see who reads Westminster better.
Free account. No credit card. The score is the point; the trade is the test.
USE CASES
How people use The IQ
Three ways the platform is used — by people who follow UK politics closely.
For Westminster researchers
Track shadow cabinet movements without refreshing Hansard. The IQ Network maps who sits on which committees, who shares donors, and who co-signs amendments — all updated weekly from public registers.
Export the graph, verify the source data, quote the methodology.
For public-affairs teams
Identify the 10 MPs most likely to move on your policy area before the consultation closes. Filter by committee membership, registered interests, and donor overlap. Generate a TVRA assessment for compliance records.
A defensible influence ranking, not a gut call.
For the politically curious
Read the briefings, place your portfolio, see who reads Westminster better. The Exchange turns "I follow politics" into "I have a position on politics" — playful, but never trivial.
Compete with people who follow this as closely as you do.
PRICING PLANS
Choose Your Trading Experience
Select the plan that matches your political trading ambitions, with flexible options to fit every level of engagement.