Caroline Flint

Caroline Louise Flint ( born September 20, 1961 in Twickenham, England) is a British politician of the Labour Party, which the constituency of Don Valley in the House of Commons since 1997 and represents several government offices held.

Life

Studies and professional activities

After visiting the 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 (BA Hons. ), It was 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 ) busy.

Already during his studies Flint, who joined in 1978 as a member of the Labour Party began their political career and was between 1983 and 1985 Women's National Representative of the student federation ( Labour Students) and at the same time from 1984 to 1985 Executive member of the Coordination Committee of their party. After she was 1988-1989 Head of the Women's Section of the National Student Union of Great Britain ( National Union of Students ), she was Associate for Gender Equality at the Council of the London Borough of Lambeth and then from 1991 to 1994 for the welfare and employee development.

During this time she was 1991-1995 chairman of the Labour Party in the constituency of Brentford and Isleworth and delegate to the General Congress of the Party and from 1994 to 1997 speaker at the National Policy Forum of the party. In 1991, she was also research assistant at the General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trade Union ( GMB), one of the UK's largest trade unions, as well as 1995-2000 co-editor of the party journal Renewal.

Member of Parliament and government offices

In the general election of 1 May 1997 Caroline Flint was first elected as a candidate of the Labour Party as a member of the House of Commons and represents there since the constituency of Don Valley.

At the start of its parliamentary membership it from 1997 to 1999 Member of the House Committee on Education and Employment and the Subcommittee on Education, before it was between 1999 and 2001 Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Ministers of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In 2001 she was Parliamentary Private Secretary Peter Hain, who was first Minister of State for Trade and Industry Ministry and then from 2001 to 2002 in the Ministry of Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.

Subsequently, she was Parliamentary Private Secretary John Reid, 2002-2003 Minister without Portfolio and Managing Labour Chairman and Leader of the House in 2003 and Lord President of the Council ( Lord President of the Council) was.

In June 2003 she took over for the first time an office as so-called " junior minister " with the appointment to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Home Office, the Home Office, where she was responsible for the reduction of organized and international crime, anti-drug coordination as well as European and International Affairs. In May 2005 she became Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Ministry of Health and was appointed there in May 2006, Minister of State, where she was responsible for each of the public health.

In June 2007, she was Minister of State at the Department for Work and Pensions and was responsible and competent Minister for Yorkshire and the Humber for both the employment and welfare reform by January 2008.

On January 25, 2008, she was Minister of State of Housing in the Department for Communities and Local Government, and had as such until October 2008 cabinet rank during the tenure of Prime Minister Gordon Brown. She was most recently in 2009, Minister of State for Europe at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office during the run of Brown 's Labour government from October 2008 till June.

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

Member of the Shadow Cabinet

After the election defeat of the Labour Party at the general election on 6 May 2010 and the loss of government majority, she was appointed by the new party leader Ed Miliband in the shadow cabinet of her party and was there between 2010 and 2011, first "shadow minister " for Communities and Local Government and has been 2011 " shadow Minister " for energy and climate change.

These general election she was able to maintain its mandate in the House against their conservative challenger with 37.9 percent of the vote, but lost in comparison to the previous general election in 2005 and 14.8 percentage points in 2946, a popular vote.