I’VE recently returned from a trip so have only just caught up with the Milliband/ Two Kitchens story. The strangest thing is that, when queried about this, he looked surprised and said “Oh, the other kitchen is used by the nanny.” The nanny? Is this the “man of the people” we are all supposed to love? I had a nanny, but that was back in the 1940s. Is this man real? He talks about the working people. One thing he is not is a “man of the people”.

Ask people in Ringland, Alway or Bettws if they have a nanny. They might think you were talking about their gran or nan, but a paid servant, employed to look after their children? Words fail me.

Gerald Davies, Allt-yr-yn View, Newport