Oh dear! ‘Mrs Clegg’ is forced to eat her words

TRUST Miriam Gonzalez Durantez of all people to invoke Donald Trump’s doctrine of ‘fake news’ when she disagrees with a story.

As i reported yesterday, the lawyer wife of former deputy Pm Nick Clegg pointed out on social media the irony of being invited to speak at an international Women’s Day event in a letter addressed to ‘mrs Clegg’.

Yesterday the proud feminist took issue with my item and implied it was ‘fake news’. ‘according to the Daily mail, i have shamed the overall organisers of international Women day. Hilarious!! and then they say that “fake news” is just a social media problem.’

After the BBC picked up the story and put it on its home news page, miriam was no longer dismissing it as ‘fake news’.

‘ Still a little bit sad that women asking to be called by their name is considered to be “news”,’ she grumbled.