Boris Johnson promises fast-track UK visas to scientists after Brexit

London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has unveiled a new fast-track visa plan to attract “the very best minds from around the world” in a bid to boost the country’s science sector after Brexit. Unveiling the plans of a shake-up of the British immigration rules on a visit to the Culham Science Centre in Oxfordshire, Johnson said on Thursday that he wanted to ensure the country’s immigration system to attract best foreign scientists, Xinhua reported. The British Home Office and the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy have been instructed by the Prime Minister to work with the scientific community to develop the new visa route, which the British government hopes to launch later this year. The proposals come after the Wellcome Trust, a leading charity and medical research institute, warned the Prime Minister that a no-deal Brexit threatened the science sector. “Britain has a proud history of innovation, with home-grown inventions spanning from the humble bicycle to the lightbulb,” Boris Johnson said. (IANS)

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