Ray Collins, Baron Collins of Highbury

The Right Honourable The Lord Collins of Highbury
Official portrait, 2019
Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 July 2024
Prime Minister	Keir Starmer
Leader	The Baroness Smith of Basildon
Preceded by	The Earl Howe
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Africa
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 July 2024
Prime Minister	Keir Starmer
Preceded by	Andrew Mitchell
Lord-in-waiting Government Whip
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 July 2024
Prime Minister	Keir Starmer
Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
In office 20 October 2021 – 5 July 2024
Leader	The Baroness Smith of Basildon
Preceded by	The Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
Succeeded by	The Earl Howe
Shadow portfolios 2023–2024 Women and Equalities 2015–2024 Foreign Affairs 2011–2024 Whip 2023–2023 Cabinet Office 2020–2020 Women and Equalities 2013–2020 International Development 2012–2013 Work 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
Leader	Gordon Brown Harriet Harman[a] Ed Miliband
Preceded by	Peter Watt
Succeeded by	Iain McNicol
Personal details
Born	Ray Edward Harry Collins (1954-12-21) 21 December 1954 (age 69)
Political party	Labour

Ray Edward Harry Collins, Baron Collins of Highbury (born 21 December 1954)^[1] 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.^[2] Collins has been Deputy Leader of the House of Lords, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Africa,^[3] and a Lord-in-waiting since July 2024.^[4]

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