After unsuccessfully standing as a Labour Party candidate in the 1989 European Elections he became a researcher for the Chairman of the European Parliament's Committee on Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection, Sir Ken Collins.
On leaving university, Collins worked as a local authority planning officer and lectured at the Glasgow School of Art and Paisley College of Technology subsequently being elected a Member of East Kilbride Town and District Council (1973–79) and of Lanark County Council (1973–75).
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