Nick Clegg wants to let MPs keep family fortunes under wraps Mr Cleg was asked on ITV News if his wife "earning her own salary, a businesswoman in her own right, would have to make her earnings public." He replied: "The principle need to be a simple one - us politicians - as servants of the public - should make our own arrangements transparent. But I don't think we should necessarily call on other people to do that. I think it probably would be a pity if we all end up in the kind of frenzy that American politicians do constantly on these issues, but I do think that a push for more transparency than we have at the moment is now justified. Speaking hours later at the offices of the accountancy giant KPMG in east London, Mr Clegg said it was a "matter of principle that the public has a right to know" about politicians" financial affairs. He said that his personal tax affairs were "boring," consisting solely of his £134,565 salary as an MP and Deputy Prime Minister. He said: "I personally have got no principle objection at all to greater transparency by politicians of their tax return. I think you would probably find mine rather boring - I earn one salary and paid tax on it and that's it. It's a matter of public record already. Mr Clegg, the son of a former investment banker, is one of four children and was raised in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire. His father - Nicholas Clegg Snr - is the son of Russian-born Baroness and owns a chateau near Bordeaux, France and a 20 room ski-ing chalet in the Alps. His wife Miriam Gonzalez Durantez is a high flying lawyer in the City and is independently wealthy and on a reported six figure salary. She is also a director of a Spanish building company. Last night MPs and campaigners said that in an age of greater transparency it was unlikely that Mr Clegg's distinction over discloure between his personal and family interests could last. Peter Facey, a spokesman for campaign group Unlock Democracy, said: "The public are going to demand more and more information about politicians. "The public are going to demand more information about people's interests, their families" interests, which houses they own and the investments they have. It will be hard on people who have made their own careers and find themselves married to a politician. John Mann, a leading backbench Labour MP, said Mr Clegg was being "disingenuous" by only agreeing to publish his own tax details and not going further.He said: "All the wealth that ministers currently or will benefit from in the future needs to be declared, and not just part of their tax returns." The question of whether politicians should publish details about their inherited wealth and any trust funds was first raised by former shadow home secretary David Davis. He told The Daily Telegraph: "If you want really to know about someone's tax affairs you have to know about more than just someone's tax return. You have to know their assets, the potential inheritances, if they are going to be the beneficiaries of upcoming trust funds - all those things.