Kieran Lamb
It happens even in the best-run governments, though not very often. An independent committee tasked with providing an urgently-needed answer comes up with the wrong one, the answer officials didn't expect.
It happened last year on the reclassification of cannabis and again yesterday when the organ donation taskforce reported to the health secretary, Alan Johnson, on the best way to improve the UK's poor rate of organ transplants obtained from dead bodies.
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