There are growing doubts about the future of a UK-based alternative to Horizon Europe after science minister George Freeman warned that lack of Treasury support “risks a deepening brain drain” and a “crisis of confidence” in British science.
As Westminster was convulsed by ministerial resignations and calls for Boris Johnson to leave Downing Street, Mr Freeman used Twitter to highlight what he called a “critical meeting” of a Cabinet committee on a replacement scheme for the European Union’s flagship research programme, from which the UK has been excluded.
