article_snippet: Mr Miliband today sought to cool the row over Mr Miliband unusual domestic arrangements, insisting Mr Miliband prefers the 'functional kitchenette' where Mr Miliband was seen posing for TV cameras.
article_snippet: The Labour leader, who has repeatedly insisted Mr Miliband is not interested in photo opportunities,was filmed sipping tea at home with his wife Justine in a modest kitchen at Mr Miliband
article_snippet: For Mr Miliband actually lives in a house with two kitchens.
article_snippet: The godmother to one of Mr Miliband children tonight revealed that the kitchen Mr Miliband and his wife Justine were pictured in was in fact a 'functional kitchenette' next to the family's sitting room .
article_snippet: Jenni Russell, a newspaper columnist, said Mr Miliband Mr Miliband was pictured in was used for 'tea and quick snacks' and insisted the family's main kitchen was 'lovely' The poky room the couple were pictured in, albeit with an oven and hob, was revealed last night by a family friend to be a 'functional kitchenette' for 'tea and quick snacks'.
article_snippet: And 'two kitchens' Miliband invites unwelcome comparisons with the controversy over John Prescott for having 'two Jags'.
article_snippet: Mr Miliband denied choosing to be filmed in the smaller kitchen because it was less imposing. '
article_snippet: The house we bought had a kitchen downstairs when we bought The house we bought,' Mr Miliband told the Birmingham Mail . '
article_snippet: Pressed again on why Mr Miliband was shown in the smaller kitchen, Mr Miliband added: 'This is the kitchen Justine and I use.'
article_snippet: Mr Miliband joked: 'I think Justine would probably say Justine wishes I'd spend more time in the smaller kitchen.'
article_snippet: Daily Mail columnist Sarah Vine, the wife of Tory chief whip Michael Gove, wrote an article in yesterday's paper sympathising over the 'forlorn' kitchen as depicted on BBC News on Tuesday evening.
article_snippet: Justine wrote: 'Very rarely do I feel sorry for Mr Miliband, but seeing Mr Miliband standing there in Mr Miliband forlorn little kitchen, staring into the middle distance while sipping from a stripy blue-and-white mug, part of Mr Miliband wanted to rush home from work, sling some jolly painted crockery in a bag and head over there with a tin of home-made brownies. '
article_snippet: In his Christmas card last year, Mr Miliband posed with Mr Miliband wife and children in what appeared to be a larger kitchen .
article_snippet: Yesterday this prompted Jenni Russell, the Times political commentator and family friend, to come to the Labour leader's defence – by revealing the Labour leader actual kitchen is 'lovely'.
article_snippet: She tweeted: 'Mr Miliband kitchen is lovely.
article_snippet: When a Twitter user expressed surprise, She replied: 'It's not 2 kitchens!
article_snippet: Last night Tory MP Nigel Adams said: 'Clearly there's no cost of living crisis for 'Two Kitchens' Miliband. '
highlights_snippet: Mr Miliband has a second kitchen for 'tea and snacks' next to sitting room .
  
highlights_snippet: Revelation comes after Mr Miliband posed with Mr Miliband wife Justine in small 'kitchenette'
  Godmother to one of Mr Miliband children revealed second kitchen .
  
highlights_snippet: Two kitchens Mr Miliband' echoing 'Two Jags Prescott' jibe .