Ray Collins, Baron Collins of Highbury

The Right Honourable
The Lord Collins of Highbury
Official portrait, 2025
Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
Incumbent
Assumed office
9 July 2024
Prime MinisterKeir Starmer
LeaderThe Baroness Smith of Basildon
Preceded byThe Earl Howe
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Africa
Incumbent
Assumed office
9 July 2024
Prime MinisterKeir Starmer
Preceded byAndrew Mitchell
Lord-in-waiting
Government Whip
Incumbent
Assumed office
9 July 2024
Prime MinisterKeir Starmer
Government spokesperson for Equalities
Incumbent
Assumed office
8 October 2024
Prime MinisterKeir Starmer
Preceded byOffice established
Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
In office
20 October 2021 – 5 July 2024
LeaderThe Baroness Smith of Basildon
Preceded byThe Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
Succeeded byThe Earl Howe
2023–2024Women and Equalities
2015–2024Foreign Affairs
2011–2024Whip
2023–2023Cabinet Office
2020–2020Women and Equalities
2013–2020International Development
2012–2013Work and Pensions
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Life Peerage
Assumed office
24 January 2011
General Secretary of the Labour Party
In office
12 June 2008 – 19 July 2011
LeaderGordon Brown
Harriet Harman
Ed Miliband
Preceded byPeter Watt
Succeeded byIain McNicol
Personal details
Born
Ray Edward Harry Collins

(1954-12-21) 21 December 1954
Political partyLabour

Ray Edward Harry Collins, Baron Collins of Highbury (born 21 December 1954) is a British politician and trade unionist serving as a Member of the House of Lords since 2011. A member of the Labour Party, he served as General Secretary of the Party from 2008 to 2011. Collins has been Deputy Leader of the House of Lords, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Africa, a Lord-in-waiting and Government spokesperson for Equalities since 2024.

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