Let me first of all say that it is the right of the government to make decisions that, if lawful, should be, as I said, loyally implemented by any department of the government.
The reason I resigned, which I made clear in my resignation statement, was that when doubt began to be expressed about the nature of the advice we gave, which to any statistician would come across as not the work of a statistician, I came to the conclusion that I cannot be the head of an agency whose reputation has suffered.