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The Science Party is a UK political party that was launched on April 20 2010 by Michael Brooks a science author consultant to the New Scientist magazine and regular contributor to BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme and Sumit Paul-Choudhury an editor of New Scientist.A key goal in the Science Party manifesto is ensuring that science mathematics and engineering have sufficient funding skills and political priority.The Science Party challenged MP David Tredinnick in his constituency of Bosworth in the East Midlands winning 197 votes 0.4% of the votes cast.Michael Brooks points out that Tredinnick claimed £700 in his MP expenses for astrology software which he repaid following media publicity.