According to insiders, its new by-election taskforce had only met once before the poll was called and was not ready: privately, campaign insiders admit it was not aggressive enough in combating a personal onslaught against the Conservative candidate Bob Neill, who was attacked for being 'three jobs Bob' by the Liberal Democrats.
In the wake of the controversy, the group disbanded its "public safety and elections" taskforce that had been lobbying for stand-your-ground laws and for the spread of voter ID laws that restrict voter registration and make it harder for black, elderly and poor voters to cast their ballots.
People voted for a Conservative majority government partly because they did not want the "mess" of coalition or other deals, Margaret Beckett, the former foreign secretary and head of Labour's election defeat taskforce, has said.
Dame Margaret Beckett, the former Labour deputy leader, was asked shortly after the general election to chair a taskforce to investigate why the party had lost.
On Tuesday, Labour published a 35-page report on why it lost the election, drawn up by a taskforce chaired by the former deputy leader Beckett.
Shortly after the elections, the NPP appointed a taskforce to spearhead the design of the NHIS.
Asked whether the announcement was an attempt to wedge Andrews in the lead-up to the election, Abbott said he expected the taskforce to gain bipartisan support given the federal opposition leader, Bill Shorten, had previously called for the move.
More recently, she quit Fifa's anti-discrimination taskforce after Sepp Blatter's re-election.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been resistant to the notion that his company, social media, or the web in general are undermining democracy ("a pretty crazy idea"), even after dozens of his own staff formed a covert taskforce to address the problem post-election.
Assuming he is cleared, he could fight the seat at the general election and - who knows? - head some Cameroonian General Wellbeing taskforce, sipping smoothies and promising yoga vouchers for pregnant women.
The social media site has been facing increasing pressure to improve the way it handles fake news after the election outcome, with reports saying some of the company's staff have formed an unofficial taskforce to address the problem.
