The result was the country's first coalition government in 70 years, an unlikely pairing of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.

The British people, not to mention their politicians, have little experience of coalition governments at the national level, leading to some confusion over which party's policies will dominate. For scientists and engineers, haunted by memories of the savage cuts imposed on the universities by the Conservatives in the 1980s, this is a particularly pertinent question.

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