![]() ![]() She’s very un-spun, but I’m not even sure if she’s aware of that gift.’ ‘I’ve never met anyone before or since who’s anything like her. She is ‘very, very beautiful, and so authentic and so true, and so direct’, he says. Fortunately, Clegg sees this lack of traditional British reserve as a positive. Those who know her describe her as forthright and outspoken. Even Clegg’s brother Paul concedes that she ‘has a very powerful character’.Īnd Miriam herself, a lawyer who earns far more than her husband, has been known to mutter that he ‘has a hobby called politics’. That’s not to say his Spanish wife is a shrinking violet. But Clegg relishes these short periods of normal contact with his children. Not every dad is Deputy Prime Minister, of course - and the recent revelation by Miriam that he insists on doing his share of the school run has raised a few eyebrows. I think a lot of people think the same in their own working lives.’ ‘I sometimes think, gosh, wouldn’t it be better to do this when the children are grown up, because you always want to spend more time with the children. He frequently agonises about whether it’s right to be enmeshed in national politics while his boys are small. Nick Clegg as a baby with his mother Hermance
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