the partial return of imperial measures
Presumably all the scientists and engineers in the age group this bit of pathetic populist posturing is meant to appeal to will be happy to come out of retirement and fulfil the wishes of the government to lead the world in innovation, as they'll be the only ones who are at all used to using these measures.
Honestly, this is pathetic. You may as well ban the use of these new-fangled computers as well, because it's just not like the good old days when we had to use slide rules and knew how to do long division.