Hypocrisy as sons sent to top private school

NICK CLEGG and his wife Miriam Gonzalez Durantez are paying £70,000 a year to send their sons to a top private school in California.

The former Deputy Prime Minister previously spoke about the ‘corrosive’ gap between state and private education in the UK.

But he appears to be keen to ensure his sons are on the right side of that divide in America, sending Miguel, 12, and Alberto, 17, to the elite school close to the family’s £7million mansion.

His oldest son, Antonio, 20, recently graduated from the same school, which we are not naming to protect the boys’ privacy, where annual day fees are £34,500. A source said: ‘The school... is level with Eton in status.’

A decade ago, Sir Nick warned: ‘There is a great rift in our education system between our best schools, most of which are private, and the schools ordinary families rely on. That is corrosive for our society and damaging to our economy.’ His wife also appears to have had a change of heart. In 2014, she said of her sons: ‘As far as I know they will always go to state school. You cannot buy your place into the elite. You have to earn it.’

The Cleggs did not respond to a request for comment last night.