University leaders who lobby against Brexit are a disgrace. Research would thrive outside the EU

Senior university staff have been scaremongering about the damage leaving the EU would do to British research, writes Alan Sked. They have a vested interest in doing so. In fact, UK universities would continue to enjoy the same rights in EU Research Framework programmes if we left the Union. Switzerland has access to parts of Horizon 2020. In any case, the way Brussels functions is antithetical to the kind of innovation researchers should want to pursue.