Background
Flello was born in Bournville, Birmingham.
Flello was born in Bournville, Birmingham.
He attended Bournville Junior and Infant schools before going to King"s Norton Boy"s School. He graduated in 1987 with a B.Sc (Honours).
At age 18 he went to University of Wales, Bangor to read Chemistry. After graduating, Flello worked for a short time at Cadbury in Bournville before joining the Inland Revenue. In 1989 he left to join Price Waterhouse accountants as a personal tax advisor.
In 1995 he moved to Arthur Andersen.
In 1999, he co-founded Platts Flello Limited, tax and financial advisors. In late 2003 he left to work as the Chief Executive Officer of Malachi Community Trust until December 2004.
Flello was elected as a councillor to the Longbridge ward of Birmingham City Council in 2002, stepping down in 2004. He is a former chairman of the Birmingham Northfield Constituency Labour Party.
He served as a governor at the Newman College in Bartley Green, and was Chair of Governors for both Colmers Farm infants and junior schools.
He was also a governor at The Meadows primary school. He served as a regional organiser for the Labour Party in 2004 until his election to Westminster. Parliament
Flello was elected to the House of Commons at the 2005 general election for Stoke-on-Trent South following the retirement of George Stevenson.
Flello held the seat with a majority of 8,681 and made his maiden speech on 19 May 2005.
In 2009 he became Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Defence, Bob Ainsworth. In 2007 Flello was accused of filibustering a fellow Labour backbencher"s private members bill.
The bill, introduced by neighbouring Staffordshire Member of Parliament Paul Farrelly, aimed to give temporary and agency workers similar employment rights to permanent staff lieutenant was backed by the Unite trade union.
The incident provoked an angry response in the Daily Mirror.
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In parliament he has been a member of the Science and Technology Select Committee, and became the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Lord Chancellor, Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton in 2006 after which he became Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Hazel Blears.