There was harrumphing yesterday about the need to have a science minister in cabinet. What, like cabinet minister Karen Andrews, whose portfolio is Industry, Science and Technology? Harrumphers would have made more of a point if they had deplored the absence of innovation in her top-level brief. – it went when the government decided not to upset anybody opposed to old industries being replaced by new ones.
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