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Britain’s biggest charitable funder of science, Wellcome Trust, writes to new PM, praise his promise of thriving science sector, says No Deal is “a threat to that”. Chair, ex MI5 chief Eliza Manningham Buller letter to PM said Brexit already damaging scientist recruitment...
Britain’s biggest charitable funder of science, Wellcome Trust, writes to new PM, praise his promise of thriving science sector, says No Deal is “a threat to that”. Chair, ex MI5 chief Eliza Manningham Buller letter to PM said Brexit already damaging scientist recruitment...
Lady Manningham Buller told the BBC that Wellcome’s billion pound a year funding for science in the UK reflected fact UK already “a science superpower” but “anxious” that status “on the wane” from “rupture” with European collaboration. Said funding & immigration policy vital...
She also said there were some post Brexit opportunities to shape global regulation of new technologies such as Artifical Inteligence and genomic medicine... but she pointed out the 50 per cent fall in apps from EU to study at Sanger Institute in Cambridge
Number 10: “PM is committed to supporting UK’s world-leading science sector so that it takes full advantage of opportunities ahead outside EU. This ambition extends to no deal scenario where he has taken steps to turbo-charge preparations to ensure that challenges are mitigated”
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colleague @KatyAustinNews interviewed Nobel Prize winner Sir Paul Nurse of Crick centre, praised PM Johnson’s “great” speech on science but said was “not compatible” with No Deal. “What hes trying to do is complete opposite. He over the coming months will learn to recognise that”
Full letter from @wellcometrust to new PM on science, migration policy, No Deal & Brexit here: wellcome.ac.uk/news/final-mon…
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