British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he plans to introduce a new fast-track visa to attract more of the world's best scientists to the UK.
Mr Johnson said on Thursday that he wanted to "ensure our immigration system attracts the very best minds from around the world".
He said the government would work with the scientific community on the new visa, "with a view to launching it later this year".
Britain is facing its biggest immigration shake-up in decades after it leaves the EU, which is scheduled to happen on October 31.
After Brexit, EU citizens will lose the automatic right to live and work in the UK, and Britons to settle in the bloc's 27 remaining nations.
That has sparked fears that Britain may face shortages in key job areas.
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Some of Darwish's last words
"They see their tomorrows slipping out of their reach. And though it seems to them that everything outside this reality is heaven, yet they do not want to go to that heaven. They stay, because they are afflicted with hope." - Mahmoud Darwish, to attendees of the Palestine Festival of Literature, 2008
His life in brief: Born in a village near Galilee, he lived in exile for most of his life and started writing poetry after high school. He was arrested several times by Israel for what were deemed to be inciteful poems. Most of his work focused on the love and yearning for his homeland, and he was regarded the Palestinian poet of resistance. Over the course of his life, he published more than 30 poetry collections and books of prose, with his work translated into more than 20 languages. Many of his poems were set to music by Arab composers, most significantly Marcel Khalife. Darwish died on August 9, 2008 after undergoing heart surgery in the United States. He was later buried in Ramallah where a shrine was erected in his honour.
