But that's not what's happening. This is already, as far as I can see, a fait accompli. The government isn't waiting for a study. They've decided this is what they want to do.

Look, I have already said I am not going to put any artificial limits on our ambitions this time around

Scientists. What will not stop this from happening is government oversight.

I read the Sunday Telegraph stories. They're not too far off what may be happening.

How far that extension might or might not go, I think is something that will require further evidence.

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.