G tells a good story about how Miriam was asked to edit the Today programme over Christmas, and wrote to Paul Dacre to ask whether she could interview him. In her letter, she said that he had only ever referred to her as Mrs Clegg, but that she would be doing the programme as Miriam Gonzalez Durantez. Dacre wrote a curt letter back, refusing. And then the PS: ‘You have only been asked to do the programme because you are Mrs Clegg.’
