PM’s intervention ‘only way to stop’ £1 billion UK research cut

Downing Street, science funding, policy, association to Horizon Europe

Leaders fear £1 billion-plus cut to fund UK Horizon association

Universities UK and Wellcome Trust express mounting fears about where funding to join European Union research programme will come from

By John Morgan

16 March

UK ‘science superpower’ status to bring ‘strategic advantage’

UK’s overhaul of defence and foreign policy sees science as ‘arena of systemic competition’

By John Morgan

16 March

The barren land is taken over by the Sahara desert in Chad, where farmers and herders are pitted against each other over diminishing pasture and resources. As an illustration of how UK cuts to research aid will harm it's reputation

UK science reputation at risk as cuts raise strategy questions

Cuts to major international research funds will harm UK’s reputation but also undermine rationale for UK’s main funding body, claim research leaders

By Jack Grove

16 March

Flags of UK and the European Union in London

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Shambles.

#2 Submitted by k.s.... on March 21, 2021 - 7:27pm

As usual the fate of a successful sector of the UK economy depends on the whims of the Brexititeer in Chief Boris Johnson.

PM’s intervention ‘only way to stop’ £1 billion UK research cut

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