About 50 % are foreigners and 80 % work in university settings, where their status is most likely to be uncertain; although postdocs in industry and
government labs tend to fit smoothly into existing job categories, academic postdocs may work in situational limbo, being neither faculty, staff, nor students.
So I
tend to discount the idea of the «Lib -
Lab» pact so fondly fantasised about around here, as it would be politically suicidal for the Liberal Democrats («we're a new direction... oh hang on, we're supporting the very unpopular previous
government»)