Caroline Louise Flint (born 20 September 1961, Twickenham, London, United Kingdom) is a British Labour politician. She is the Member of Parliament for Don Valley in South Yorkshire and the former Minister of State for Europe.
Flint was educated at Twickenham Girls School (the school transferred to Waldegrave School for Girls in 1977) in Clifden Road Twickenham and Richmond Tertiary College before earning her BA (Hons) in American Literature and H...
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Caroline Louise Flint (born 20 September 1961, Twickenham, London, United Kingdom) is a British Labour politician. She is the Member of Parliament for Don Valley in South Yorkshire and the former Minister of State for Europe.
Flint was educated at Twickenham Girls School (the school transferred to Waldegrave School for Girls in 1977) in Clifden Road Twickenham and Richmond Tertiary College before earning her BA (Hons) in American Literature and History combined with Film Studies from the University of East Anglia. She joined the Labour Party when 17. She was the Women's Officer of the National Organisation of Labour Students for 1982-84.
She began her career with the Inner London Education Authority, as a management trainee from 1984-85 and a Policy Officer from 1985-87. She was head of the Women's Unit at the NUS from 1988-89, before joining Lambeth Council as an Equal Opportunities Officer from 1989-91, and then Welfare and Staff Development Officer from 1991-93. From 1994-97 she...
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