SO HOW will Gordon Brown change the UK now he has ousted Tony Blair as prime minister? If you feel left in the dark, you’re not alone. Few people in the UK, let alone elsewhere, have the faintest idea. Brown was not voted in at a general election and so had no manifesto.
For science, at least, there are some signs – most of them positive. While Chancellor of the Exchequer, Brown has been a big supporter of research. In his 10 years in the job he loosened government purse strings enough to double the nation’s science budget. He laid…
