Caroline Flint
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The Right Honourable Caroline Flint MP |
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Flint in 2015
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| Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change | |
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In office 7 October 2011 – 14 September 2015 |
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| Leader |
Ed Miliband Harriet Harman (Acting) |
| Preceded by | Meg Hillier |
| Succeeded by | Lisa Nandy |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government | |
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In office 8 October 2010 – 7 October 2011 |
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| Leader | Ed Miliband |
| Preceded by | John Denham |
| Succeeded by | Hilary Benn |
| Minister of State for Europe | |
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In office 3 October 2008 – 5 June 2009 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Jim Murphy |
| Succeeded by | The Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead |
| Minister of State for Housing and Planning | |
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In office 24 January 2008 – 3 October 2008 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Yvette Cooper |
| Succeeded by | Margaret Beckett |
| Minister of State for Employment | |
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In office 28 June 2007 – 24 January 2008 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Jim Murphy |
| Succeeded by | Stephen Timms |
| Minister for Yorkshire and the Humber | |
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In office 28 June 2007 – 24 January 2008 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Rosie Winterton |
| Minister of State for Public Health | |
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In office 5 May 2005 – 28 June 2007 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Melanie Johnson |
| Succeeded by | Dawn Primarolo |
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Member of Parliament for Don Valley |
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Assumed office 1 May 1997 |
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| Preceded by | Martin Redmond |
| Majority | 8,885 (20.9%) |
| Personal details | |
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20 September 1961 Twickenham, Middlesex, England |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Phil Cole |
| Alma mater | University of East Anglia |
| Website |
Official website Official Facebook |
Caroline Louise Flint (born 20 September 1961) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Don Valley since 1997. She served in the Government as the Minister for Public Health from 2005 to 2007, the Minister for Employment from 2007 to 2008, the Minister for Housing and Planning in 2008, and finally as the Minister for Europe from 2008 to 2009, when she resigned citing disagreement with the leadership style of Gordon Brown.
In October 2010, she was elected to the Shadow Cabinet, and Ed Miliband appointed her Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. In 2011, she was moved to become Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.
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 she was 17. She was the Women's Officer of the National Organisation of Labour Students from 1982 to 1984.
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