UK Govt biometric ID cards vulnerable to fraud?

From computerweekly.com:

"A leading biometrics expert has warned the [UK] government that biometric ID cards, due to be rolled out from 2007, could be vulnerable to fraud unless it invests in more sophisticated iris recognition technology.

Professor John Daugman, who pioneered the developed of iris recognition at Cambridge University said that the biometric systems under test by the government were not sophisticated enough to distinguish between real and fake eye images."