Ray Collins, Baron Collins of Highbury

The Right Honourable
The Lord 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 Minister	Keir Starmer
Leader	The Baroness Smith of Basildon
Preceded by	The Earl Howe
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Africa
	In office; 9 July 2024 – 7 September 2025
Prime Minister	Keir Starmer
Preceded by	Andrew Mitchell
Lord-in-waiting; Government Whip
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 9 July 2024
Prime Minister	Keir Starmer
Government spokesperson for Equalities
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 8 October 2024
Prime Minister	Keir Starmer
Preceded by	Office established
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
2023–2024
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 ; 20 January 2011
General Secretary of the Labour Party
	In office; 12 June 2008 – 19 July 2011
Leader	Gordon Brown; Harriet Harman; Ed Miliband
Preceded by	Peter Watt
Succeeded by	Iain McNicol
Personal details
Born	Ray Edward Harry Collins; 21 December 1954
Party	Labour

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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.