George Freeman celebrates the Conservatives becoming committed to science, technology and innovation
Through the economic and political turmoil of the years since the financial crash of 2008 and the departure of Gordon Brown as prime minister in 2010, a quiet revolution in Conservative thinking on science, engineering and R&D has gone almost unnoticed.
The party of laissez-faire, free market anti-interventionism in the 1980s has morphed into the party of ‘white heat’ investment in science, technology and innovation, with an active strategy for the industries of tomorrow.
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