Is the Conservative record on science investment beginning to unravel?
You may have noticed that the Westminster legislative machine has all but ground to a halt as this sclerotic government creeps towards a general election amid Tory party infighting. Yesterday’s parliamentary agenda was given over to attempts to legally define Rwanda as a safe country, while earlier this week the House of Commons was dominated by Conservative rebellions against their own bill to ban smoking for anyone born after 2009.
In about four years’ time, that might make a difference to what undergraduates are doing on the steps of the university library during study breaks, but it is hardly the most pressing issue facing the country, or even young people, right now. It was a ‘flagship’ idea announced by prime minister Rishi Sunak at the Conservative Party conference in October and is an example of what the commentators call ‘legacy legislation’.
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