Brexit

Researchers divine meaning from pre-election promises on Brexit, innovation incentives and climate change

Labour and Liberal Democrats put green policies at the centre of their pitch. Both pledge to invest 3% of GDP on research and to spread R&D funding around the regions

President of the Royal Society tells candidates from the three biggest parties of need to fix the damage caused by 3.5 years of uncertainty

And as manifesto pledges begin to appear, the UK’s leading science bodies make election plea to be part of Horizon Europe

Government-commissioned report sketches possible strategies to contain Brexit fallout and maintain UK’s science powerhouse status. Researchers, in denial, don’t want to contemplate them

Former science minister David Willetts says public research institutes urgently need more processing power

Jo Swinson, leader of the UK’s Liberal Democrat party, pledges ethical AI, R&D tax credits and better access to finance for start-ups led by women, as election campaign gets underway

Chris Skidmore predicts country will be in EU research programme from 2021, despite tight negotiating window of less than a year

Draft deal still faces barriers to approval by both UK and European parliaments