Anthony Robinson presents a panoramic view of the current travails defining a post-Brexit nation.

Rishi Sunak claims to want to promote British science and research. The prime minister rightly says the country has great strengths in areas that range from artificial intelligence to life sciences, though it also faces some obstacles. One of these is its post-Brexit absence from Horizon, the European Union’s (and the world’s) biggest collaborative research programme.

When Boris Johnson agreed the Brexit divorce package with the EU, he promised it would unleash innovation, turning Britain into an agile “science superpower”. But rather than boost UK science and technology, Brexit has – so far – damaged it,

Six years after the referendum we can disentangle the evidence and judge the effects on health and care, says Richard Vize.

The UK’s science community is urging the prime minister, Boris Johnson, to match funding to rhetoric, as arguments continue over where the budget for the UK’s association to the EU’s Horizon Europe research programme will come from.

European Commission’s next seven-year science-funding scheme — its biggest ever — will allow any country to participate for a price.

As departure day approaches, chief of top UK lab says he fears science will drop off the government’s agenda.