Caroline Flint

The Right Honourable Caroline Flint
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	(1961-09-20) 20 September 1961 (age 62) Twickenham, Middlesex, England
Political party	Labour
Spouse	Phil Cole ​ (m. 2001)​
Alma mater	University of East Anglia (BA)
Caroline Flint's voice Flint on the government's offender learning prospectus Recorded 12 March 2008

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.