If you had a direct line to the Prime Minister, what would you ask them to do?

Ever since the new Prime Minister was elected, Ted has noticed something weird going on. All Ted's ideas seem to be turning into government policy!

An extra day off at the weekend. 

Free football collector's cards available in school playgrounds.

Is it all just a coincidence or does he have some kind of influence over the country's leader? And if he does, what can he ask her to do next? ...

Frank Cottrell Boyce's first book, Millions, won the Carnegie Medal and his many other awards include the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Frank is also a screenwriter, regularly collaborating with Michael Winterbottom and Danny Boyle, with whom he devised the 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony. He has written three sequels to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and counts an episode of Doctor Who that he wrote in 2014 a particular achievement, saying, "Nothing compares to the buzz of writing the words 'Interior...TARDIS!'" Frank has seven children and lives in Liverpool.