politicians including Harold Wilson Rupert Harrison, former Chief of Staff to UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne (2006-2015) Lord Garry Hart, former Special Adviser to the UK Lord Chancellor Lord Farrer Herschell (BA, 1857), former UK Lord Chancellor Lin Homer (LLB), former Chief Executive of UK HM Revenue and Customs Bola Ige (LLB, 1959), former Attorney General and Minister of Justice of Nigeria (2000–2001) Annuar Musa, former Minister of Youth and Sport of Malaysia (1990–1993), former Minister of Rural Development (1993–1999), former Minister of Federal Territories (2020–2021), Minister of Communications and Multimedia (2021–) Khairy Jamaluddin (MA Legal and Political Theory, 1998), former Minister of Youth and Sport of Malaysia (2013-2018), former Minister of Science, Technology & Innovation (2020-2021), Minister of Health (2021-) "J.B." Jeyaretnam (LLB), former leader of the Workers' Party of Singapore and Secretary-General of the Reform Party David Jones (LLB), UK Conservative Party politician and government minister. Former Secretary of State for Wales Helen Jones (BA), UK Labour Party politician Kaoru Inoue (井上 馨) (one of the "Chōshū Five"), first Foreign Minister of Imperial Japan credited as ‘the Father of modern Japanese diplomacy' Masaru Inoue (井上 勝) (Civil engineering and mining, as one of the "Chōshū Five"), credited as 'the Father of the Japanese railway' having been the first Director of the Railway Board of Imperial Japan Prince Philip Karađorđević of Yugoslavia and Serbia (BA) James Kitson (Chemistry and Natural Sciences), former President of the UK Liberal Party and first Lord Mayor of Leeds Sylvia Lim (LLM, 1989), chairman of the Workers' Party of Singapore Ian Luder (BA Economics and Economic History), UK tax expert and former Lord Mayor of the City of London Sir Nicholas Macpherson, Permanent Secretary to the UK Treasury Stavros Malas (BSc, PhD Genetics), former Minister of Health of Cyprus and Progressive Party of Working People (AKEL) politician Augustus Margary, former UK diplomat, and whose murder caused the 1875 "Margary Affair" Brian Mawhinney (PhD Radiation Physics, 1969), former Chairman of the UK Conservative Party and Secretary of State for Transport Alison McGovern (Philosophy), UK Labour Party politician Fiona Mactaggart (PGCE), UK Labour Party politician and former government minister Steve Matenje, Malawian civil servant and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Lord Tom McNally (LLB), Liberal Democrat Party politician and former Deputy Leader of the UK House of Lords. He was President of the University College London Union Sir William Meyer, first High Commissioner