UK science has a long list of asks for Labour, with few easy fixes

The UK election result has been broadly welcomed by the science community, although the election campaign itself (in common with the many others taking place around the world this year) focused on immigration, inflation, taxation, cost of living and social inequality. So while science has never been a prominent feature of election manifestos, the most recent crop in the UK made for very light reading indeed and it’s hard to tell exactly what a Labour executive will mean for science. But what is clear is that the challenges it faces are formidable.