UK public want political parties to make research funding a priority ahead of the GE

Data released by the Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE) demonstrates public appetite for more political focus on R&D. The polling, carried out as part of CaSE’s Discovery Decade programme by research agency Public First in October 2023, also found that a majority (70% of 1,094) would support a proposal to build a new laboratory for carrying out R&D on…