Jane Collins

Jane Collins
Collins in 2014
UKIP Spokesperson for Home Affairs
In office 2 December 2016 – 18 October 2017
Leader	Paul Nuttall Steve Crowther (Acting) Henry Bolton
Preceded by	Diane James
Succeeded by	Richard Bingley
Other UKIP offices UKIP Spokesperson for Justice In office 16 September 2016 – 6 December 2016 Leader Diane James Nigel Farage (Acting) Preceded by Diane James Succeeded by Peter Jewell UKIP Spokesperson for Work and Pensions In office 24 July 2014 – 2 December 2016 Leader Nigel Farage Diane James Nigel Farage (Acting) Preceded by Position established Succeeded by Andrew Charalambous
Member of the European Parliament for Yorkshire and the Humber
In office 1 July 2014 – 1 July 2019[1][2]
Preceded by	Edward McMillan-Scott
Succeeded by	John Longworth
Personal details
Born	(1962-02-17) 17 February 1962 (age 62) Pontefract, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Political party	UK Independence Party (until April 2019) Brexit Party (since April 2019)

Jane Maria Collins (born 17 February 1962) is a British politician and horse show-jumper who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber from 2014 to 2019. She was elected in May 2014 as a member of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), but defected to the Brexit Party in 2019 in the last months of her membership of the European Parliament.

Collins served as UKIP's spokesperson on Employment law, Home Affairs and most recently on Animal Welfare.^[3] On 15 April 2019 she announced that she was leaving the party to join the Brexit Party.^[4]