Caroline Flint

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Caroline Flint

Caroline Louise Flint (born September 20, 1961 in Twickenham , England ) is a British Labor Party politician who represented the constituency of Don Valley in the House of Commons from 1997 to 2019 and held various government offices.

Life

Studies and professional activities

After attending Twickenham Girls School , Caroline Flint studied at Richmond Tertiary College and American literature , history and film studies at the University of East Anglia . After she graduated with honors with a Bachelor of Arts had been completed (BA Hons.), It from 1984 to 1985 as a management trainee and then to 1987 as a political assistant at the Board of Education of Central London ( Inner London Education Authority employs).

Flint, who joined the Labor Party in 1978, began her political career while still a student and between 1983 and 1985 she was the national women's representative of the student union Labor Students and at the same time she was an executive member of her party's coordinating committee from 1984 to 1985. After serving as the head of the women's section at the National Union of Students from 1988 to 1989 , she worked for the London Borough of Lambeth Council on gender equality and then for welfare and staff development from 1991 to 1994.

During this time she was Labor Party leader in the constituency of Brentford and Isleworth from 1991 to 1995 and a delegate to the party's General Congress and from 1994 to 1997 a speaker at the party's National Political Forum. In 1991 she also became a research fellow at the General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trade Union (GMB) , one of the UK's largest trade unions , and from 1995 to 2000 she was co-editor of the party magazine Renewal .

MPs and government officials

In the general election of May 1, 1997 , Caroline Flint was elected as a candidate of the Labor Party for the first time as a member of the House of Commons and has since represented the constituency of Don Valley .

At the beginning of her parliamentary membership, she was a member of the Lower House Committee on Education and Employment and the Sub-Committee on Education from 1997 to 1999, before she was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office between 1999 and 2001 . In 2001 she became Parliamentary Private Secretary to Peter Hain , who was first Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and then from 2001 to 2002 in the Ministry of Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.

She then became Parliamentary Private Secretary to John Reid , who was Unaccounted for Minister and Labor Executive Chairman from 2002 to 2003 and then Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council in 2003 .

In June 2003 she took over a position as so-called "junior minister" for the first time with the appointment of Parliamentary Undersecretary in the Ministry of the Interior, the Home Office , in which she was responsible for the reduction of organized and international crime, anti-drug coordination and European and international affairs . In May 2005 she moved to the Ministry of Health as Parliamentary Undersecretary of State, where she was appointed Minister of State in May 2006, where she was responsible for public health.

In June 2007 she became Minister of State in the Department of Labor and Pensions, where she was responsible for employment and welfare reform as well as Minister responsible for Yorkshire and the Humber until January 2008 .

On January 25, 2008, she became Minister of State for Housing in the Department of Towns and Local Government, and as such had cabinet rank until October 2008 during the tenure of Prime Minister Gordon Brown . Most recently she was Minister of State for Europe in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from October 2008 to June 2009 during the Labor government led by Brown .

Caroline Flint, who has also been a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the British-American Parliamentary Group since 1997 , was a member of the House of Commons Committee on Administration between 2001 and 2005 and in 2003 worked on a working group to modernize the House of Commons. She is also a member of the union wing of her group and is a member of the Fabian Society .

Member of the shadow cabinet

In the general election of May 6, 2010 she was able to maintain her mandate in the lower house against her conservative challenger with 37.9 percent of the vote , but lost 14.8 percentage points and 2946 votes compared to the previous general election in 2005 . The Labor Party lost its parliamentary majority and Flint became the new party leader Miliband Ed in the shadow cabinet appointed the party, where she was between 2010 and 2011, first "shadow minister" for Communities and Local Government and since 2011 "Shadow Minister" Energy and Climate Change.

In 2015 , she defended her constituency - despite the renewed defeat of the Labor Party - again and then ran for party leadership, but was defeated by Jeremy Corbyn and only finished third. In 2016 she supported the Remain campaign at the EU membership referendum in the UK ; the majority in their constituency voted against it for a Brexit. Flint also supported the Labor parliamentary group's failed initiative to vote out Corbyn. In the course of the ongoing struggle in the House of Commons for Great Britain to leave the EU, Flint increasingly distanced himself from the official party line, as the majority in her constituency had voted for a Brexit. She was open to support Prime Minister Boris Johnson's attempts in the House of Commons to pass an exit bill, and defied her party's whips in October 2019 when she voted against a proposed amendment to the government's bill.

After 22 years in the House of Commons, Flint lost her seat in the 2019 General Election against the Conservative candidate. She then blamed Jeremy Corbyn for this and for the overall defeat of the Labor Party. She also said that in future Labor should no longer be a party whose top executives are only recruited from London and the surrounding area.

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personal data
SURNAME Flint, Caroline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flint, Caroline Louise (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH 20th September 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Twickenham , England