Nick Clegg’s wife has revealed that her husband was forced to order a Thai takeaway when she refused to cook for former Chancellor George Osborne at their home.

Speaking at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, Miriam Gonzalez Durantez revealed the reason her husband resorted to ordering food was because “he doesn’t cook” and added, “that’s his problem, not mine”.

Instead of joining them she took her sons out for dinner. She has said of Mr Osborne: "I disagree with him a lot, but I think he is hard-working and he is clever."

The Spanish-born lawyer, who has recently released a cookery book, also said she never had to walk out on a dinner with Michael Gove because he “didn’t come to my house so I wasn’t confronted with that situation”.