Congratulations to Nick and Miriam

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Congratulations to Nick and Miriam

By Stephen Tall | Mon 23rd February 2009 - 9:07 am

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Warmest congratulations and good wishes to Nick Clegg and Miriam Gonzalez Durantez on the birth of their third child, Miguel. Here’s the BBC report:

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg’s wife Mirian [sic] has given birth to a son Miguel – their third child. The younger brother for Antonio, seven, and Alberto, four, was born at Kingston Hospital on Sunday. Mother and son are both said to be doing well. …

[Mr Clegg] has said he will take paternity leave, with his deputy Vince Cable to fill in at prime minister’s questions. Mr Clegg’s wife – Miriam Gonzalez Durantez – is a former Middle East expert at the foreign office, whose father was a conservative senator in the Spanish parliament. … When Antonio was born Mr Clegg took a long period of paternity leave so that she could return to work first.

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6 Comments

Letters From A Tory 23rd Feb '09 - 9:49am

One of the few things that I agree with Clegg on is the utter disgrace of only giving new dads two weeks off work when their children are born. I feel sorry for him, as with every new dad in the country, for having to put up with this outrageous discrimination in parental leave.
sanbikinoraion 23rd Feb '09 - 10:14am

Hmm… Antonio, Alberto and Miguel… I can see who wears the trousers in this relationship 😛
Tabman 23rd Feb '09 - 10:45am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Clegg
Ryan Cullen 23rd Feb '09 - 1:57pm

Congratulations
Dinti 23rd Feb '09 - 2:03pm

Nick is right to highlight the issue of paternity leave. It should be up to parents, not the state, to decide how to share parental leave. The upshot of the inflexible system we currently have is direct discrimination against fathers and indirect discrimination against women of childbearing age.

Congratulations and good luck with the sleepless nights!
Anonymous 4th Mar '09 - 2:36pm

How rotten of the Sun to use the happy news as an excuse just to be nasty to poor Nick again:

“NICK CLEGG has called his new son Miguel, which fits in nicely with the nickname given to the Lib Dem leader by some of his MPs.

They call him Manuel, after the Barcelona waiter in Fawlty Towers, whose favourite response was: “I know nothing.””