UK ministers are drawing up legislation within weeks to set up a new “blue-skies” scientific research agency that will invest taxpayers’ money in cutting-edge technologies.
Business groups had questioned whether the government would go ahead with the agency after Dominic Cummings, UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s chief adviser and the main architect of the project, quit the government last year after a power struggle in Downing Street.
But Kwasi Kwarteng, the new business secretary, is pushing forward with the agency, which will answer to his department, according to government insiders.
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