Lord James Bethell James is a former Minister and current member of the House of Lords. As Minister for Innovation in the Department for Health and Social Care, he helped lead the national response to the Covid epidemic. He is one of Britain’s foremost campaigners with a twenty-year track record working across government, media and industry. He has worked at The Sunday Times, the US Senate and the EU Commission, run as a Conservative parliamentary candidate, run communications companies, and helped make the Ministry of Sound a global success story.