QUOTE The consultation, launched under Boris Johnson’s premiership with
much fanfare, drew a strong response, with 98.7% of respondents calling for
the continued use of metric units. The emphatic rejection of pints, pounds
and stone is likely to come as a relief to businesses, worried about the
cost and complexity of a dual system, and scientists concerned about
potential setbacks in international collaboration. ENDQUOTE

For the illiterate and innumerate: scientists adopted SI system of coherent
units over six decades ago. International collaboration by scientists will
carry on as normal.

Wikipedia notes this:

QUOTE The International System of Units, internationally known by the
abbreviation SI (from French Système International), is the modern form of
the metric system and the world's most widely used system of measurement.
Established and maintained by the General Conference on Weights and
Measures, it is the only system of measurement with an official status in
nearly every country in the world, employed in science, technology,
industry, and everyday commerce. ENDQUOTE

The ignorance of journalists is only slightly less than that of their
uncritical, uninformed, and uneducated readers.

--
Spike