Lord (Jonathan) Caine - Born and brought up in east  Leeds, and a lifelong Rugby League enthusiast, Jonathan Caine is a member of the UK House of Lords, having been nominated for a life peerage in David Cameron’s Resignation Peerages List in 2016, and created Baron Caine of Temple Newsam in the City of Leeds.

He served six Conservative Secretaries of State as a Special Adviser between 1991-5 and 2010-19. Lord Caine was appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Northern Ireland Office  in 2021 where he remained until the 2024 General Election. 

He was a member of the Board for Rugby League World Cup 2021, and has been a long-serving member of the All-Party Parliamentary Rugby League Group, returning for a second spell as Vice Chair in 2024.

In 2020, he was appointed as Chair of a seven-strong Panel to determine which club replaced Toronto Wolfpack in the Betfred Super League, and he was elected to the RFL Board in the summer of 2025 as a member of the Strategic Review launched earlier in the year.

Lord Caine currently divides his time between Westminster and his home in Leeds.