Brexit: Nobel Prize winners warn May
Twenty-nine Nobel Prize winners have warned Theresa May a hard Brexit could cripple science. The world leading scientists banded together in a letter to the Prime Minister, as well as European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker, to say a hard Brexit could seriously damage research.
The letter, also signed by six Fields Medal mathematicians, said creating new barriers would inhibit progress to the detriment of us all.
It came after Ms May announced in the Commons that extending the Brexit transition beyond 2020 would be a last resort and that the deal is 95 per cent complete.
Nobel winner and Crick director Sir Paul Nurse, one of the signatories to the letter said: Science and research matter for economic growth health and quality of life and the environment.
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