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Nobel prize winner warns UK science will suffer unless it can gain access to Horizon Europe Sir Paul Nurse said the seven-year programme was so important that exclusion would see the UK drop out of the top tier of research nations. Photograph: BBC/Jon Sayers/BBC One of Britain’s leading researchers has warned of a “major blow” to national science if ministers cannot secure access to a massive research programme that is being drawn up by the EU. The Horizon Europe programme will fund €100bn in research projects, making it one of the largest science funds in the world. British researchers will be locked out unless the government negotiates an access deal in the coming months. Sir Paul Nurse, the Nobel prize-winning director of the Francis Crick Institute, in London, said the seven-year programme was so important that exclusion would see the UK drop out of the top tier of research nations. Hard Brexit could cripple UK science, say Nobel prizewinners ...