Health, Science & Environment

BBC Today presenter counters arguments by top scientist with dangerous rubbish about funding science from £39bn Brexit divorce bill.

Brexit will be a huge blow to UK research funding and British scientific leadership. “No deal” will make things even worse.

Brexiters claim public voted for “no deal”. So are they arguing people will be happy to see their weekly shop rise by an average of 7%?

Short shelf-life drugs for chronic diseases - allergies; asthma; diabetes; cancer - are most at risk from months of Brexit disruption.

“Take back control” and “take back sovereignty” slogans are biggest Brexit myths of all. Only working together can avoid environment chaos.

Over two years since referendum the UK’s future is no clearer. Meanwhile there is no political time for the big problems facing the country.

Medicine regulation is a matter of life and death, and key to UK industries and science. Even Brexiters accept disadvantages of leaving EU.

Brexit talks focus on trading goods across border. But Irish environment has much to lose if complex post-Brexit solutions cannot be found.

Social care is already suffering a staffing crisis. Brexit would make it worse by cutting off “low skilled” care workers from the EU.

Survey of staff by the Francis Crick Institute shows no one trusts the government to deliver a decent deal for the cutting edge UK research.

Last year Sweden-born Angela Spang was named Women Entrepreneur of the Year. Now Brexit could force her to leave the UK.

Post-Brexit strategy would put English farmers on back foot and open UK to global agri-giants. This won’t help deliver a “green Brexit”.