[T]he Labour response to CASE is mostly noteworthy for what it does not say. While the party blows its own trumpet regarding its major investment in science since 1997 — and it has much to be proud of — Brown does not commit to any further increases in spending, or even to keeping funding as it is.

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It is fair for Labour to claim some credit for installing chief scientific advisers in “almost all government departments”. But it omits the fact that the missing department is the Treasury — perhaps the most important of the lot — and unlike the Lib Dems, it makes no commitment to appointing one.