Blair's failure

摘要

When the Labour party came to power in Britain in 1997, it inherited a decaying science base staffed by disillusioned scientists. The fact that the country's main science lobbying group has recently changed its name from Save British Science to the Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE) says much about what the government has achieved since then. When the science minister David Sainsbury and his two opposition counterparts met for a press briefing last month, the spokesmen for both the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives began by congratulating the Labour government for its record on science.