Former adviser to Nick Clegg while he was Deputy PM 👇
As @Sean_Kemp points out, it's worth saying that James wasn't a political special adviser while in No10 (as Dominic Cummings is), he was a civil servant (independent/impartial). He obviously isn't a scientist though.
A former political special adviser to Nick Clegg saying something v different 👇🏻
And a former Chief Scientific Adviser saying non-scientific civil servants would attend SAGE, but political spads wouldn't 👇
And after all that, I think this is probably still the more important story today beyond what Dominic Cummings did or didn't do or say in SAGE...
Interesting views from three professors on the SAGE - Cummings story... common thread being that it would be beneficial for the govt to be more transparent about the make up and workings of the meetings. 
The view from another former spad here 👇🏻
