Sir Malcolm Leslie Rifkind KCMG PC QC is a British politician who served in various roles as a cabinet minister under Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major, including Secretary of State for Scotland , Defence Secretary and Foreign Secretary .
Rifkind was born in Edinburgh to a Jewish family that emigrated to Britain in the 1890s from Lithuania among his cousins are Leon and Samuel Brittan. He was educated at George Watsons College and the University of Edinburgh where he studied law before taking a postgraduate degree in political science . While at university he took part in an overland expedition to the Middle East and India. He also appeared on University Challenge.
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