Philip James Collins (born 16 May 1967) is a British journalist, academic, banker and speechwriter.
[1] Collins was educated at Bury Grammar School,[2] since 1976 an independent school for boys in the market town of Bury in Greater Manchester, followed by the University of Birmingham, Birkbeck, University of London, and St John's College, Cambridge.
Private Eye claimed that Collins was "sacked by editor John Witherow for being insufficiently boosterish about the Woosterish Boris Johnson.
The Liberal Republic (2009) is a pamphlet Collins wrote with his former colleague, Richard Reeves, who later became Nick Clegg's director of strategy.
[9] Collins is married to journalist Geeta Guru-Murthy; the couple have two children and live in London.