Everything you hear from the government, ever since Boris Johnson was selected as the PM, is geared towards elections. Winning an early election was his entire

Everything you hear from the government, ever since Boris Johnson was selected as the PM, is geared towards elections. Winning an early election was his entire plan from day 1. In that context, this looks like a low cost effort to potentially influence a small minority that may be influenced. Y science funding. But more importantly to provide a talking point to negate at least 1 argument against leaving the EU, whether in reality it does so or not.