Caroline Flint | |
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 Official portrait, 2017 | |
| Minister of State for Europe | |
| In office 3 October 2008 – 5 June 2009 | |
| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Jim Murphy |
| Succeeded by | The Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead |
| Minister of State for Housing and Planning | |
| In office 24 January 2008 – 3 October 2008 | |
| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Yvette Cooper |
| Succeeded by | Margaret Beckett |
| Minister of State for Employment | |
| In office 28 June 2007 – 24 January 2008 | |
| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Jim Murphy |
| Succeeded by | Stephen Timms |
| Minister for Yorkshire and the Humber | |
| In office 28 June 2007 – 24 January 2008 | |
| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Rosie Winterton |
| Minister of State for Public Health | |
| In office 10 May 2005 – 28 June 2007 | |
| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Melanie Johnson |
| Succeeded by | Dawn Primarolo |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs | |
| In office 13 June 2003 – 10 May 2005 | |
| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | The Lord Filkin |
| Succeeded by | Andy Burnham |
| Member of Parliament for Don Valley | |
| In office 1 May 1997 – 6 November 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Martin Redmond |
| Succeeded by | Nick Fletcher |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 20 September 1961 Twickenham, Middlesex, England |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse |
Phil Cole (m. 2001) |
| Alma mater | University of East Anglia (BA) |
Caroline Louise Flint (born 20 September 1961) is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Don Valley from 1997 to 2019. A member of the Labour Party, she attended the Cabinet as Minister for Housing and Planning in 2008 and Minister for Europe from 2008 to 2009.
One of 101 female Labour MPs elected at the 1997 general election, Flint served in the government of Tony Blair as a junior Home Office Minister from 2003 to 2005 and Public Health Minister from 2005 to 2007. She remained in government under Gordon Brown as both Employment Minister and a Regional Minister from 2007 until 2008, when she was promoted to the Cabinet. She resigned in 2009, citing disagreement with the leadership of the Prime Minister.
Flint was elected to the shadow cabinet following Labour's 2010 election defeat, and appointed Shadow Communities and Local Government Secretary by opposition leader Ed Miliband. She was Shadow Energy and Climate Change Secretary from 2011 to 2015, and finished third-place in the 2015 deputy Labour leadership contest. Flint returned to the backbenches in 2015 and was defeated in her seat at the 2019 general election.