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Ray, Baron Collins of Highbury Collins

Ray Edward Harry Collins, Baron Collins of Highburyis 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, and a Lord-in-waiting since July 2024.

Collins was appointed Central Office Manager of the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1984 and held essentially the same post until 2008, being redesignated Head of Administration in the 1990s and Assistant General Secretary in 1999. He has been a member of the Labour Party for over thirty years and has campaigned for the party in every General Election since 1970. He was TGWU representative on the Labour Party National Policy Forum and a member of Labour's National Constitutional Committee.

He helped steer the TGWU into a merger with Amicus, creating Unite, one of the largest trade unions in the country.

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