Science budget and R&D tax breaks will go up, but manifesto promise of agency modelled on DARPA is ditched, as government confirms it wants a hard Brexit, with UK outside the EU single market and customs union

Manifesto promise of increased science funding is welcomed but many fear uncertainty about the UK’s place in future European research projects 

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