article_snippet: A petty feud between the two most powerful women in Ed Miliband’s inner circle has rocked the Labour Party.
article_snippet: The dispute between the party’s Election chief Lucy Powell and Chief Whip Rosie Winterton Rosie Winterton flared up over an invitation to the Brit pop music awards on the night of a crucial Commons vote.
article_snippet: both rivals for Miliband’s ear – to a head.
article_snippet: Flare-up: Election chief Lucy Powell, 40, left, and Chief Whip Rosie Winterton, 56, became embroiled in a dispute over Ms Powell's Brit Awards plans .
article_snippet: One source said: ‘Rosie told Rosie Rosie had no right to miss a crucial Commons vote to go hobnobbing with Madonna and Co.’
article_snippet: The argument reportedly intensified when Ms Powell's was told Rosie had a special duty to be there because the ‘second jobs’ debate was partly the responsibility of Labour’s Shadow Cabinet Office team, which includes Rosie.
article_snippet: Commenting on the dispute, one source said:
article_snippet: ‘Rosie told Rosie Rosie had no right to miss a crucial Commons vote to go hobnobbing with Madonna (pictured falling on stage) and Co’ at the Brits .
article_snippet: Rosie learned Rosie backroom wheeler-dealing skills from Rosie mentor and close friend John Prescott, who gave Rosie first break in politics – as tea girl in his office in 1980.
article_snippet: Only two years after becoming an MP, Miliband put Rosie in charge of Miliband Election campaign in November.
article_snippet: Lucy and Rosie are a generation apart and totally different in Lucy and Rosie approach to politics.
article_snippet: A Labour spokesman said last night: ‘There is no truth in this allegation.