In a leaked email, Professor Colm Durkan, head of engineering at Cambridge University, urges students that if they push to severe financial links with weapons manufacturers “the consequences for our Department and a large part of the University would be existential”.

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NEW: In a leaked email, Professor Colm Durkan, head of engineering at Cambridge University, urges students that if they push to severe financial links with weapons manufacturers “the consequences for our Department and a large part of the University would be existential”. Prof Durkan is also chair and director of for-profit consultancy IFM Engage, which has a turnover of £7m and whose clients include weapons manufacturers BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce and Airbus.

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