Henley and Thame is Caroline Newton’s home. She was brought up in here, and is raising her family here too.
Having gone to school locally, Caroline studied history at Cambridge. Her career started as a British diplomat in Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall where, as she says, she saw “the power and fragility of democracy”. As a journalist at the BBC she helped set the daily news agenda as a producer on programmes like Today and the 10 O’Clock News, and she subsequently headed up the Government’s broadcast communications strategy at No 10 Downing Street. In the private sector she’s advised companies on their international growth strategies.
Caroline stands up for the things we all care about: our beautiful countryside, our communities, our local businesses and the most vulnerable people in our society.
She has a track record of helping residents here in South Oxfordshire. As a local councillor over a decade she got social care and social housing for people in need; she worked with communities to get the developments they wanted - and to fight off the ones they didn’t. She’s campaigned for our local, Oxfordshire farmers; and she supports patients at Townlands Hospital in Henley as the chairman of the charity there.
As your MP she’d continue to focus on these local issues, as well as on promoting British interests and security internationally.