Flick was first elected as a Member of Parliament for Meon Valley in December 2019. From 2015 to 2017 she was the MP for nearby Portsmouth South. Flick is standing for the new Winchester seat at the next General Election as the Meon Valley constituency disappears and Steve Brine is stepping down. The new Winchester seat will have 26% of Meon Valley constituents.
Flick first moved to Winchester in 1988 and started in politics as a city councillor for St Bartholomew Ward in Winchester before she went to America in 1999-2004 where she saw the horror of the 9/11 World Trade Centre terrorist attack. Three of her 4 children were born in Winchester Hospital. Flick was Chair of the Winchester NCT for 3 years as well as a member of the Winchester and District Community Health Council for 8 years where she chaired the Acute Group.
Flick has a wide range of experience in public service and the voluntary sector. Recently, she was the Chair of the SE Region of the Veterans Advisory and Pension Committee, a Board member of the National Citizens Service (NCS) and Voluntary Director of the Conservative Policy Forum. She resigned from all these appointments when she was elected again to Parliament.
Flick has been a school governor (including chair of governors) at Milton Park Primary School in Portsmouth as well as a board member of the Salterns Academy Trust. She is passionate about education and worked as a lay Ofsted school inspector in the 1990’s. After leaving university where she read South-East Asian Studies, she worked as an insurance broker and was a member of the TA Intelligence Corps. She has a Master's degree from Southampton University in Global Politics and International Relations.
In the last Parliament, Flick was an active member of the Education Select Committee. She also chaired many All Party Parliamentary Groups covering her interests such as Yemen, Schools, Women and Work and, importantly for our area, Wines GB. She has been involved in the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme for many years looking at every branch of the armed forces and attended the Royal College of Defence Studies 2020-2021.
Her main interests in Westminster are Education, Defence and Foreign affairs, especially the Middle East as she was born in Aden, Yemen
Flick married her husband Hereward in Bishops Waltham in 1987 and they have 4 grown-up children and 3 grandchildren.