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“Nick and I Don’t Talk about Gibraltar at Home”

Miriam González, Spanish wife of UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg

Miriam González, the Spanish wife of recently appointed United Kingdom Deputy Prime Minister Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, has captured the imagination of the media, especially in her native country.

According to a report in The Guardian, Spaniards wanted Nick Clegg to win the election so that his Spanish wife could move into Nº 10. The British daily said that Miriam, a lawyer by profession, “has already dashed hopes she might be influential in negotiating the return to Spanish sovereignty of a piece of land that many Spaniards feel strongly about.”

“Nick and I don't talk about Gibraltar at home,” one Spanish newspaper quoted her saying.

The three young Clegg boys all have Spanish first names—Antonio, Alberto and Miguel. Miriam's father was a politician, senator and a former Partido Popular Mayor in the town of Olmedo near Valladolid.