Professor Stephen Hawking is with David Cameron in that the UK should stay in the EU. Mr Hawking said that it would be a disaster to science if the UK left the EU. 150 people of the Royal Society signed a letter to the Times newspaper saying that a Brexit would devastate research. Professor Hawking said, ‘A lot of the young and promising scientists were recruited from Europe’ (BBC News). They add that increased funding from Europe which had benefitted UK science. The scientists said this situation encouraged the best scientists elsewhere to move to Britain.

Professor Angus Dalgleish of London University is a spokesman for ‘Scientists for Britain’, a group of scientists arguing against the EU case.

Harry, age 12.