Politics Live, 4th March 2025

“…we’re always urging scientists to get involved in politics… I can assure you any scientist that is involved in any cabinet of any government at the moment will make cuts in terms of science funding… are you going to expel them all?”

Claire appeared on BBC’s Politics Live with Labour MP Natalie Fleet, Conservative MP Luke Evans, journalist Nadine Batchelor-Hunt and presenter Jo Coburn. They discussed the pause in US military spend for the Ukraine, JD Vance’s criticisms of ‘random countries that haven’t fought a war in thirty years’, the UK’s defence budget and attempts to expel Elon Musk from the Royal Society.

Listen to the discussion on iPlayer.