I don't think "leaders" need to be SME's by any stretch of the imagination. If anything, I think it would hold them back because it's easy to lose yourself in t

I don't think "leaders" need to be SME's by any stretch of the imagination. If anything, I think it would hold them back because it's easy to lose yourself in the details. I do think that they should have a basic grasp of the fundamentals of their field though, and most politicians honestly don't even have that. I don't want to put up walls to being a back-bencher MP, but there should be a bare-minimum barrier for entry for certain Ministerial positions, especially one like Technology minister. You can't have someone leading a team who needs every-single-concept dumbed down for them so they can only make decisions from basic abstractions.