Spending pledges may not restore the love to UK science

Tory spending plans include £800 million budget for ‘UK Darpa’

Boris Johnson pledges to double public spending on research and development to £18 billion over course of next parliament

By Chris Havergal

14 November

Parliament, Westminster, government, politics, London

UK parties go head to head on science at Royal Society hustings

Society president warns parties must address ‘huge reputational damage’ to UK science caused by Brexit

By John Morgan

20 November

Boris Johnson wearing white coats and goggles

Why shouldn’t the UK’s Darpa be within UKRI?

Conservative mistrust of the existing research funding system demands a re-examination of its uneasy compromises, says John Womersley

By John Womersley

5 November

The UK will be an innovation nation regardless of how we leave the EU

The government’s commitments to fund research and fast-track visas for scientists show that we are securing the country’s future outside the EU, says Jo Johnson

By Jo Johnson

9 August

Spending pledges may not restore the love to UK science

Association to Horizon Europe would also be positive, but hostile mood music over immigration still reverberates

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Tory spending plans include £800 million budget for ‘UK Darpa’

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Spending pledges may not restore the love to UK science

Association to Horizon Europe would also be positive, but hostile mood music over immigration still reverberates

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Tory spending plans include £800 million budget for ‘UK Darpa’

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Why shouldn’t the UK’s Darpa be within UKRI?

The UK will be an innovation nation regardless of how we leave the EU

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