article_snippet.sent: At the time, Flanders' boyfriend, Labour rising star Ed Miliband was chief economics adviser to the Chancellor, Gordon Brown.
article_snippet.sent: Fast-forward more than 11 years and the Milibands have since had two children, married and believe the Milibands are less than a month away from moving house with the Milibands family to No 10 Downing Street.
article_snippet.sent: Clearly Mrs Miliband was guided by Labour spin doctors, who wanted to give the impression to voters that Mrs Miliband husband was a touchy-feely human being, rather than the soulless nerd that her husband awkward image conveys on TV.
article_snippet.sent: Former partners of Mrs Miliband include Juliet Soskice (left) and fellow political aide Liz Lloyd (right)
article_snippet.sent: For it wasn't just Miliband and Balls, but others, too, who had close personal relationships.
article_snippet.sent: But back to Miliband tangled love-life.
article_snippet.sent: For several years in the mid-1990s, when Miliband was working as an adviser to the then-Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown, Miliband went out with fellow political aide, Liz Lloyd (a Cambridge graduate).
article_snippet.sent: After breaking up with Liz Lloyd, Miliband had a brief relationship with the journalist Alice Miles (pictured) '
article_snippet.sent: Miliband's relationship with Liz Lloyd continued when Blair became PM.
article_snippet.sent: Miliband's relationship with Lloyd job at No 10 meant Miliband's relationship with Lloyd sat next to Miliband's relationship with Lloyd lover's elder brother David Miliband, who was a key figure in the Downing Street policy unit.
article_snippet.sent: After breaking up with Liz LloydLiz Lloyd, Mr Miliband had a brief relationship with the journalist Alice Miles, who then worked for The Times.
article_snippet.sent: Ms Miles, who some years later became a single parent, also had a fling with Miliband's relationship with Lloyd then coke-snorting The Times colleague Tom Baldwin, who is now Justine Miliband's chief spin doctor.
article_snippet.sent: Their relationship had consolidated further by the time Mr Miliband was appointed Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change in Libya.