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What we should do though is always be engaged with both companies - as we have been - to try and make sure that whatever the outcome, British science, British job, British manufacturing, that they get a proper and deserved attention".
In fact, the reverse is happening: the PM wrote in July that she wants "a positive outcome for science as we exit the EU"; and Philip Hammond followed this up in his autumn statement with a £4.7 billion increase in science and innovation investment.
What we should do, though, is always be engaged with both companies – as we have been – to try and make sure that, whatever the outcome, British science, British jobs, British manufacturing, that they get proper and deserved attention," he told the BBC.
It was welcomed by the scientific community and described by the Prime Minister, David Cameron, as "a good outcome for science".
So what appeared to be a "good outcome for science", as the Prime Minister described it, was not as good as it first seemed.
But on a day when British finance minister George Osborne announced a series of painful belt-tightening budget measures, observers say that the outcome for science could have been worse.
The left's approach to a desired political outcome when science is involved is to deny that there is a conflict with evidence and engage in a search for facts to support the wanted theory.
