Described today by the Daily Mail as “the REALLY important political issue of the day” (don’t assume that’s ironic – there’s little evidence of irony the article by Mail Online reporter Ollie Gillman), rarely has the humble kitchen appeared so often in the news headlines and the political sketch columns as it has in the last couple of weeks. So here’s how the story unfurled in Britain’s free-to-view online daily rags.
‘Two kitchens Miliband’: Labour leader posed in SECOND ‘functional kitchenette’ at £2.5m mansion for interview with his wife
Labour’s plan to cast Ed Miliband as an ordinary family man appeared to have spectacularly backfired tonight – after it emerged he posed with his wife in the family’s smaller second kitchen.
Daily Mail, Published on Thursday 12 Mar 2015 at 07:37pm
‘Two kitchens Miliband’: Labour leader says he prefers the SECOND ‘kitchenette’ at £2.5m mansion where he posed for TV
Ed ‘Two Kitchens’ Miliband under fire in bizarre row
Labour leader criticised by Tories after a humble kitchen he posed in with wife in soft-focus interview actually the smaller of two kitchens in his house
Telegraph. Published on Thursday 12 Mar 2015 at 07:47pm
Kitchen sink drama for Miliband as homely photo backfires
Labour leader seen as down to earth with no-frills cooking area on BBC film; until it was revealed as his home’s second kitchenA harmless picture of Ed Miliband and his wife Justine Thornton sipping a cuppa at their north London home, in what appears to be a relatively modest looking kitchen, has ended up providing dream tabloid headlines.It turns out that the couple were filmed by the BBC in a second kitchen at their Dartmouth Park home.Ed Miliband’s kitchen is lovely.
Guardian. Published on Thursday 12 Mar 2015 at 08:03pm
Ed ‘Two Kitchens’ Miliband: Politicians and the photos that inadvertently come to define them
With a seemingly innocuous row about the Labour leader’s kitchens making headlines, we look back at how political photocalls can backfire by crystallising weaknesses in the eyes of the electorate
Telegraph. Published on Friday 13 Mar 2015 at 09:54am
Is Ed Miliband’s ‘actual’ kitchen more like one of these?
Labour leader may be seeking to hide a much grander family kitchen like some of these on his road.
Telegraph. Published on Friday 13 Mar 2015 at 10:17am
The most important political issue of the moment? Ed Miliband’s kitchens
The puerile nature of political discourse in modern Britain crowds out the issues that matter to ordinary peopleThe problem with an open sewer is you cannot escape the stench. The Daily Mail is, of course, that open sewer, along with a sizeable chunk of Britain’s Tory-dominated oligarch-owned “free press”. Let’s just have a quick recap about the level of political discourse we have reached in Britain. The big political controversy of the moment is not the national scandals of low pay, child pov…
Guardian. Published on Friday 13 Mar 2015 at 11:19am
Ed Miliband: I have two kitchens but only use the small one
The Labour leader admits he has two kitchens in his north London mansion but says that he and his wife choose to use the smaller one upstairs
Telegraph. Published on Friday 13 Mar 2015 at 12:27pm
Labour’s Ed Miliband says he prefers the SECOND ‘kitchenette’ at £2.5m mansion
The image of the Labour leader as a man of the people with a run-of-the-mill home was not all it appeared. For Mr Miliband actually lives in a house with two kitchens.
Daily Mail. Published on Friday 13 Mar 2015 at 03:34pm
Out with policies, in with pedal bins: kitchenology will decide the election
This focus on the politics of lifestyle is absurd. By playing along Miliband has only himself to blamePoliticians: if you can’t stand talking about the kitchen, maybe get out of the kitchen? We’ll never know the precise chain of events that led to Ed Miliband and his wife being pictured in the second kitchen of their north London house as opposed to the first – but frankly, who needs to? They agreed to be pictured in the kitchen. The rest is just geography.@Nigel_Farage pre #BBCSP @ukip pic.twi
Guardian. Published on Friday 13 Mar 2015 at 06:24pm
Ed Miliband tries to defuse ‘two kitchens’ row
ED Miliband has tried to defuse controversy over the kitchen arrangements at his £2 million town house in London – by insisting he only “uses the small one”.
Scotsman. Published on Friday 13 Mar 2015 at 07:15pm
Martin Rowson on the media furore over Ed Miliband’s kitchens – cartoon
Guardian. Published on Friday 13 Mar 2015 at 10:43pm
Martin Rowson on the media furore over Ed Miliband’s kitchens – cartoon
Ed Miliband’s trial by media: Damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t
The revelation that Ed Miliband has two kitchens dominated the political agenda last week. Besides the fuss about the lime green recycling bin, does the row say more about how the Labour leader is treated by the media, Twitter and voters – that, whatever he does, he’s damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t?
Independent. Published on Sunday 15 Mar 2015 at 12:00am
The Milibands in the kitchen… What is this weird outdated parading of leaders’ wives?
Labour’s pink bus is a masterpiece of gender neutrality compared to this Mad Men-style strategyEven the most progressive kitchen analyst would have to concede that the room where Ed and Justine (formerly Thornton) Miliband unsuspectingly huddled last week is conspicuously less roomy and appealing than the series of well-appointed domestic spaces in which David Cameron and his wife have posed over the years.In fact, to judge by the number of times Cameron has invited inspection since he was firs
Guardian. Published on Sunday 15 Mar 2015 at 12:05am
Ed Miliband must take a tip from Three Kitchens Boris writes Rachel Johnson
Ed may never live down this episode of inadvertent Marie Antoinette-ing in the Labour family. It’s not because he’s got two kitchens – It is because he did not stand by who he really was.
Daily Mail. Published on Sunday 15 Mar 2015 at 01:02pm
Two Kitchens – The Movie: Miliband invites the cameras into his house AGAIN as it emerges the live-in nanny uses the big kitchen while Ed makes tea upstairs
Days after it emerged his £2million house has a large family kitchen and a smaller ‘functional kitchennete’ upstairs, ITV is expecting to film him relaxing in at least one of them this week.
Daily Mail. Published on Sunday 15 Mar 2015 at 01:59pm
Ed Miliband invites the cameras into his house AGAIN
Days after it emerged his £2million house has a large family kitchen and a smaller ‘functional kitchennete’ upstairs, ITV is expecting to film him relaxing in at least one of them this week.
Daily Mail. Published on Sunday 15 Mar 2015 at 05:06pm
Rolling pins at dawn: David Cameron and Ed Miliband clash over kitchens at PMQs
David Cameron and Ed Miliband may be in the battle of their political lives but that doesn’t mean they haven’t got time to have a domestic about kitchens.
Independent. Published on Wednesday 18 Mar 2015 at 01:04pm
Andy McSmith’s Diary: David Cameron’s kitchen stink could backfire on him
David Cameron must think the “two kitchens” story is doing Ed Miliband serious damage, because he managed to work no fewer than five jokes about it into Prime Minister’s Questions.
Independent. Published on Wednesday 18 Mar 2015 at 06:08pm
Ed Miliband complained about chancellor’s ‘two kitchens’ jibe, say Tories
In budget speech aftermath, the Labour leader is understood to have told George Osborne it was unfair to make jokes at his expenseEd Miliband complained in person to George Osborne after the chancellor used his budget speech to mock the Labour leader over the two kitchens at his north London home, according to Tory sources.In the aftermath of the budget, the Labour leader is understood to have told the chancellor that he had acted unfairly after making jokes at his expense.Ed Miliband’s kitchen
Guardian. Published on Friday 20 Mar 2015 at 06:12pm
David Cameron and Ed Miliband need to forget spin and give public the truth
Carole Malone says the party leaders are too busy scoring political points against each other rather than explaining why we should vote for them on May 7
Mirror. Published on Saturday 21 Mar 2015 at 04.55pm
Forget the general election, vote here on the most important political issue of the campaign: Who’s got the best kitchen?
Ed Miliband was the first to welcome cameras into his kitchen, and since then Nicola Sturgeon and the PM have both invited television cameras to snoop around the pantries of power.
Daily Mail. Published on Tuesday 24 Mar 2015 at 01:17am
Forget the general election, vote here on the REALLY important political issue of the day: Who’s got the best kitchen?
David Cameron, Ed Miliband, and Nicola Sturgeon: Who’s got the best kitchen?
Ed Miliband was the first to welcome cameras into his kitchen, and since then Nicola Sturgeon and the PM have both invited television cameras to snoop around the pantries of power.
Daily Mail. Published on Tuesday 24 Mar 2015 at 08:49am
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