Nick Clegg starts text messages 'OMG', Danny Alexander jokes (that's 'On Miriam's Guidance') "But it turns out that this is code in the Clegg household for "On Miriam's Guidance."" A spokesman for Mr Clegg said the remarks were entirely a joke which the Deputy Prime Minister had found "very funny." Ms González Durántez is a senior lawyer for a City firm and does not appear often in public. Mr Clegg has admitted it was "love at first sight" when he first met the Spanish lawyer while they were both studying in Belgium. In a rare interview with Grazia last year, she spoke of splitting childcare with her husband when asked how she coped with three children and a busy working life. "I always get very surprised when I'm asked this question because, you know, I have three children, I have a busy career and I have a very busy husband," she said. Yet my husband has three children, he has a much busier career than I have, and he has a busy wife. She also said Mr Clegg "kills himself" balancing being a good father and a good leader of the Liberal Democrats. During yesterday's speech, Mr Alexander made a plea not to "write off" Liberal Democrats, saying it would be "wrong to do so" when they had done so much for the economy. "I believe as a party we are making an enormous contribution to this government," he said. We will continue to anchor this government firmly in the centre ground. He also suggested the "Tory old-guard" were more of an "endangered species" than the Liberal Democrats.