Post-Brexit UK research needs bolder action from this timid government

Government rhetoric about ‘global Britain’ is not matched by its limp response to proposals for securing the future of research and higher educationTheresa May’s Lancaster House speech on Brexit resounded repeatedly with declarations of her ambition to foster a new ‘global Britain’, a term mentioned no less than twelve times. But what precisely are her government’s plans for UK research, which has been launched into a fog of uncertainty by the EU referendum? D