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Malcolm Rifkind

British politician

b. 1946age 80Living

A British politician who held three of the great offices of state under Margaret Thatcher and John Major — Scottish secretary, defence secretary, and foreign secretary — across more than a decade in cabinet. After losing his Edinburgh seat in 1997, he rebuilt a political career from Kensington and Chelsea, later chairing Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee and serving on the OSCE's Eminent Persons Panel on European Security.

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