Published on Liberal Democrat Voice By The Voice | Sun 19th October 2014 – 1:15 pm

It seems that Miriam González Durántez’s interview the other day has impressed a couple of Fleet Street columnists.

In the Guardian, Gaby Hinsliff says Miriam is “electrifying.”:

I’ve seen Miriam talking to girls at an Essex comp about raising their sights. She was electrifying. In a world where successful women are regularly portrayed as ball-breakers, lonely, or just underdressed, she makes working motherhood look thrillingly fun and achievable, if not easy. (She’s big on graft). And for teenage girls, she explodes the myth that men won’t want you if you’re clever. She doesn’t rush, surrendered wife-style, to kiss Clegg for the cameras after a party conference speech: she waits for him to come to her – and he does.

In person she’s funny, frank, mischievous, and enviably fearless. She doesn’t care how people judge her: she simply can’t see why she can’t have what men have, professionally and personally (which is of course why a certain kind of man hates her).

For Claire Cohen in the Telegraph, it’s Miriam’s authenticity and her ability to sum up what we all think hat makes her “worship the ground she walks on”:

That’s what makes Miriam so intriguing. We know relatively little about her (on paper: 46, Spanish, Roman Catholic, a successful corporate lawyer) and yet when she does speak it seems absolutely genuine. Rather than an ‘act’ one gets the sense that, on these rare occasions, we’re seeing the real person and not the ‘wife’. I just don’t believe that she’s faking it at all.

Listening to her opinions is like a session putting the world to rights with your best friend, over a bottle of Spanish red.

Photo by Cabinet Office