It’s the year 2036, the end of the first cycle of 10-year R&D budgets in the UK. It is already clear that 10-year budgets – Labour’s flagship election pledge on science – will not be adopted across the whole public R&D portfolio. ADVERTISEMENTThe identity of those areas is just one of many unanswered questions about Labour’s science funding policy. The national quantum programme is an exemplar. It has trained almost 500 PhD students, generated 49 start-ups and led to the establishment of the National Quantum Computing Centre near Oxford.

Source: The Times March 18, 2025 13:06 UTC