It has been a turbulent few months for UK politics with the appointment of two different Prime Ministers since July 2022, and a flurry of resignations and dismissals of senior government ministers during the same period. Additionally, the UK economy is in a dire state, with inflation rising above 11% and a recession predicted that could be the longest since the 1920s. Amidst this economic crisis there is little hope that Rishi Sunak, the new Prime Minister of the UK, will be able to effectively prioritise science and health care related issues that have not been addressed since Brexit: insufficient scientific funding and a regressing National Health Service (NHS) that is grappling with 130,000 vacancies.