Caroline Flint MP Articles

Britain as a whole is becoming more like the south. Labour needs to understand the challenge this presents to it, argues Caroline Flint. In October 1992, in the wake of Labour’s fourth successive election defeat, Giles Radice identified the problem of ‘southern...

Speech from Caroline Flint MP to the Third Place First conference, Reading Civic Centre, Saturday 23 June, 2012 Thank you, Keith, Michael, Guildford and Reading Labour parties, Southern Front and LabourList for supporting today’s relaunch of the Third Place First...

This year’s local elections saw the first real signs of a Labour revival in the electorally vital south, says Caroline Flint The south-east was the engine for our victory in the 1997 election. It was the region where we gained the most votes, the Tories lost the most...

Today in the Commons, Labour is calling a debate in which all MPs will have the opportunity to vote against the Government’s misguided plans to sacrifice the solar industry on the altar of George Osborne’s failing economic policy. Why is everyone getting hot and...