PhD

Sam Wainman is a PhD doctoral researcher in Hoarding Disorder at the University of Birmingham.

He tells me that I am allowed to try it them out, but taster-in-chief is someone far more qualified: Helen Sharman, the UK's first astronaut, who also has a PhD in chemistry.

She is, or was, a PhD candidate in Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University.

I then moved back to Cambridge to do a PhD in kidney cancer and was spending hours in laboratories doing research.

"That's a bottleneck and there's nothing they can do, unless they change their stance on immigration entirely. You can't just magic PhDs out of nowhere."