LONDON Britain announced on Thursday it would rejoin the European Union's flagship Horizon science research programme in a "bespoke" new agreement that ends a dispute which saw it locked out of the scheme after Brexit.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's office said in a statement the British leader had secured "improved financial terms of association" under the terms of the agreement with the EU.

(Reporting by Alistair Smout and Muvija M, editing by Elizabeth Piper)