article_snippet: Austin Mitchell Austin Mitchell has been told off by the party’s high command for poking fun at Ed Miliband’s two kitchens.
article_snippet: Mr Mitchell, 80, who is standing down as an MP in May, last week mischievously tweeted a picture of an MP own kitchen – complete with an unpacked bag of shopping and half-full glass of wine on the table – under the heading
article_snippet: Yesterday Ed Miliband was sent a rebuke by Karl Turner, the shadow solicitor general, for the ‘attack’ on the party leader, warning the party leader
article_snippet: In response to criticism, a family friend tweeted that the kitchen in the Milibands’
article_snippet: While most Labour MPs have resisted comment on the issue, Austin Mitchell fuelled the fire this weekend by tweeting:
article_snippet: Last week, in a jibe at the Conservatives’ so-called bedroom tax, the veteran MP for Great Grimsby, had said:
article_snippet: It is just the latest twist in the drama about Mr Miliband’s domestic set-up after Mr Miliband’s and
article_snippet: Mr Turner, the MP for Hull East, added that Mr Miliband’s
article_snippet: It is a reference to Labour MPs’ thinking that Mr Mitchell has done little to help Labour MPs campaign to keep the seat.
article_snippet: The veteran MP, who is an outspoken Eurosceptic, has also infuriated the leadership by claiming in a recent article that The veteran MP, who is an outspoken Eurosceptic party was promoting too many young women.
article_snippet: The veteran MP, who is an outspoken Eurosceptic said Labour, which has used all-women shortlists to boost their numbers of female MPs, was
article_snippet: Mr Mitchell Mr Mitchell claimed that as a result, Labour was becoming more ‘family- friendly, gentler’ but
article_snippet: ‘less prepared for all-night shenanigans of the parliamentary kind’.
article_snippet: Mr Mitchell also claimed that ‘ageism is rampant’ in his party, and that while Mr Mitchell was standing down because ‘I’d rather not die in public’ other Labour MPs over 60, were being ‘carried out kicking and screaming’.
highlights_snippet: The MP has been scolded by the party's high command for poking fun .