The Conservative Party is promising to put science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) centre-stage in its formation of new policies. Tory leader David Cameron has set up a task-force to advise him on how best to develop these important disciplines to the advantage of the British economy. He has asked Ian Taylor, a science minister in the last Conservative government, to chair the new group. Labour dismissed the latest initiative from the opposition as just a PR stunt. "Gimmicks like another policy commission are no substitute for the sustained investment and policy that Labour has put in place over the...