As someone who is definitely not a political expert (and not from or super familiar with the UK), my guess would be that you just can’t muster up enough political capital or will to try again. Taxpayer money (in the US at least) seems highly scrutinized, you typically can’t just fail with a lot of money and have no one say anything about it.
So then if the first try does fail, then it requires more political capital to push for allocating a bunch of money again, and failing again looks really bad for anyone who led or supported that effort. Politicians seem to care about career risk, and all this makes the risk associated with a second shot higher than the first.
I’d agree that this makes a second shot unlikely (including from other governments, if it fails spectacularly enough), if circumstances stay about the same. But circumstances will probably change, so IMO we might eventually get more such taskforces, just not soon.
As someone who is definitely not a political expert (and not from or super familiar with the UK), my guess would be that you just can’t muster up enough political capital or will to try again. Taxpayer money (in the US at least) seems highly scrutinized, you typically can’t just fail with a lot of money and have no one say anything about it.
So then if the first try does fail, then it requires more political capital to push for allocating a bunch of money again, and failing again looks really bad for anyone who led or supported that effort. Politicians seem to care about career risk, and all this makes the risk associated with a second shot higher than the first.
I’d agree that this makes a second shot unlikely (including from other governments, if it fails spectacularly enough), if circumstances stay about the same. But circumstances will probably change, so IMO we might eventually get more such taskforces, just not soon.