Hilary Benn is the Labour Party Member of Parliament for Leeds Central, UK. He talks to Global Policy: Next Generation Editor Greg Stiles about the impact of Brexit on Postgraduate Research Students, future Higher Education research funding and post-Brexit job security for researchers. Whilst attending the Global Policy North Conference on Brexit, at the University of Leeds, Hilary Benn discussed the importance of seeing significant movement towards the ‘One Yorkshire’ devolution strategy and the beneficial impact this would have on local investment and decision making in both transport and industry policy as well as Higher Education research investment.