The Answer? Britain Needs to Encourage Immigration!
The Nobel Prize winner for physiology or medicine reminded those who would celebrate Britain’s scientific prowess to beware an immigration policy that threatens to blunt such brilliance.
Having come to Britain to work at University College London after starting his career at McGill University in Canada, the dual British-US citizen and top neuroscientist is ideally placed to speak on the issue. So, too, is his fellow Nobel prizewinner, the Russia-born Sir Andre Geim, who led the discovery of the wonder material graphene in a Manchester laboratory.