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.
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas DarlingMany Americans are still disappointed over the debate that should have been between Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. Indeed, feathers flew over the weekend as some called the presumptive Republican presidential candidate a “chicken” and “coward” for making excuses to back out ... Sanders, for his part, immediately responded with “Game On.” ... Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC) ... more democratic ... ....
Backlash over the killing of a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo has fanned social media anger against the mother of the tot who slipped into a restricted area where he was in danger of being mauled. At the same time, witnesses of the incident are trying to put things in perspective and calm passions against the mother’s “negligence” or the zoo’s decision that led to the shooting of a rare gorilla....
In a stunning revelation, 71 percent of likely voters who identified themselves as Democrats told the Rasmussen survey, published today, that they believe Hillary Rodham Clinton should continue running for the presidency if she is indicted in connection with the use of a private e-mail server while Secretary of State. Today’s Seattle Times fact-checks some of her statements regarding the e-mail scandal ... ....
Istanbul. A Turkish court on Tuesday found a former Miss Turkey beauty queen guilty of insulting PresidentRecep Tayyip Erdogan on social media, handing her a suspended sentence of over one year in jail. The Istanbul court sentenced model Merve Buyuksarac, 27, to one year and two months in prison for "publicly insulting" Erdogan in a satirical poem she posted on her Instagram account, the Dogan news agency reported ... ....
Details are emerging of the horrifying conditions faced by civilians trapped inside the Iraqi city of Falluja and the extreme risks they are taking to escape. One man said a bag of flour in the city - which was taken over by so-called Islamic State (IS) militants in January 2014 - now cost $850 ... Some families have been going through garbage for food," the UN refugee agency's CarolineGluck in Baghdad told the BBC ... ....
Prepare for microwave meals, enormous piles of ironing, and visits from helpful MPs. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img=""> ... My partner still likes to tell the story of giving Liam Byrne a lift to Castleton station in his little red van and it was great to have visits from Harriet Harman, CarolineFlint, Yvette Cooper and Gloria De Piero, amongst many others ... Getty ....
@JaspJackson. email ... During a special session of the public accounts committee, Labour MP CarolineFlint asked Hall “when it comes to an online formats, isn’t there a stream of advertising revenue in the future?” ... Related ... Pressed again by Flint, who said online ads had less “qualitative” impact on digital news and information than in TV or radio, he said it would be going back on promises to commercial providers ... ....
Shadow chancellor writes to George Osborne as UK tax officials hint they could revisit Google deal if new material emerges ...Related ... She added. “He will be judged on results ... Facebook. Twitter ... “This issue is not going away any time soon,” said CarolineFlint, the former Labour minister and member of parliament’s public accounts committee ... Flint’s committee intends to question HMRC bosses on 13 June regarding its record on customer service....
A swathe of powerful mayoralties is being created across the north of England, yet, so far, few women have put themselves forward ... “Forget plausible ... Occasionally, there was one, but usually not ... Luciana Berger, Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree, is reportedly considering running for mayor of Liverpool city region, and CarolineFlint, MP for the Don Valley, is said to be interested in Sheffield, but neither are yet confirmed ... ....
Jeremy Corbyn has been announced as the surprise keynote speaker at the Progress conference in central-London tomorrow ... A she accused Corbyn and McDonnell of presiding over a "messy and divisive reshuffle" ... He added ... Tomorrow’s Progress conference will hear from Labour MPs who have been critical of Corbyn’s leadership, including CarolineFlint, Kendall and Hunt ... > ....
The five things you need to know on Tuesday May 10, 2016…. 1) TRUMP STUMPED. Can he travel to the US? Yes he Khan. Well, maybe ... Trump is perhaps realising that his bonkers plan is crashing into something called the real world ... But CarolineFlint wasn’t impressed at how John McDonnell had take to Twitter to attack her for saying the party should be doing more than ‘hanging on’ to councils against an unpopular Tory government ... A source says....
And then there was the flare-up between John McDonnell, shadow chancellor and second most important person in the Labour government-in-waiting, and CarolineFlint, who, like Reeves and Woodcock, refuses to serve on Labour's front bench..CarolineFlint, you quoted me saying re recent elections "we are looking to hang on."I never said this ... — CarolineFlint (@CarolineFlintMP) 8 May 2016....
McDonnell was also involved in an argument with former Labour shadow cabinet minister CarolineFlint. Flint told the BBC's Sunday Politics programme yesterday that McDonnell's pre-local election ambition that the party "hang on" was not good enough ...CarolineFlint, you quoted me saying re recent elections "we are looking to hang on."I never said this ... Big deal. https.//t.co/AxMP01TEaF— CarolineFlint (@CarolineFlintMP) May 8, 2016....
Share Go To ... Mr Corbyn was notable absent from the mayor's signing-in ceremony, but the pair are expected to hold talks today ... "When Jeremy was elected he invited everybody who was in the existing shadow cabinet to come and play a role, including people like CarolineFlint and others, and he created that big tent and some of them have just excluded themselves from offering their services to the party and that's up to them ... ....
The five things you need to know on Monday May 9, 2016…. 1) JEZ WE KHAN'T. Jeremy Corbyn is set to address the PLP tonight and after last week’s elections it will be a real chance for both him and his critics to take the temperature of the Parliamentary party... The final tally for all seats came in yesterday and it was this. Con -48, Lab -18, LD +45, UKIP +25 ... Still, he reprimanded CarolineFlint for misquoting him on the local elections....
The last time we won a mayoral election was 2004... The mood among the leader’s critics was not helped on Sunday when shadow chancellor John McDonnell sparked a public spat with the Blairite backbench MP CarolineFlint on Twitter, urging her to withdraw comments she had attributed to him about the local elections. CarolineFlint, you quoted me saying re recent elections "we are looking to hang on."I never said this ... ....
The last time we won a mayoral election was 2004... The mood among the leader’s critics was not helped on Sunday when shadow chancellor John McDonnell sparked a public spat with the Blairite backbench MP CarolineFlint on Twitter, urging her to withdraw comments she had attributed to him about the local elections. CarolineFlint, you quoted me saying re recent elections "we are looking to hang on."I never said this ... ....