page_title: List of Balliol College, Oxford people
section_title: Currently active
hierarchical_section_title: List of Balliol College, Oxford people / Alumni / Politicians / Currently active
caption_attribution_description: English: Yvette Cooper, British Labour politician and Chief Secretary to the Treasury, being interviewed.
context_page_description: The following is a list of notable people associated with Balliol College, Oxford, including alumni and Masters of the college. When available, year of matriculation is provided in parentheses, as listed in the relevant edition of The Balliol College Register or in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  Complete lists of Fellows and students, arranged by year of matriculation, can be found in the published Balliol College Register; the 1st edition, 2nd edition and 3rd edition.
  This list of notable alumni consists almost entirely of men, because women were admitted to the college only after 1979.
context_section_description: Members of Parliament
  Yvette Cooper 1997–
  Damian Green 1997–
  Helen Hayes 2015–
  Boris Johnson (Prime Minister) 2001–2008, 2015–
  Jo Johnson 2010–
  Julian Lewis 1997–
  Matthew Pennycook 2015–
  Rory Stewart 2010–
  Stephen Twigg 1997–2005, 2010–
  Robin Walker 2010–
  Charles Tannock (MEP) 1999–
  House of Lords
  Alan Beith
  Peter Brooke
  James Douglas-Hamilton
  Roger Freeman
  Robert Maclennan
  Patrick Mayhew
  Ralph Palmer
  Chris Patten
  Dick Taverne
caption: Yvette Cooper, British Labour politician, former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
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