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Miriam González Durántez

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first: 2023-08-20
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“And Mick is between here and California, and we have two children in the east coast of the US and one with us. And I know that when I say all these, people think like, you are bad, but it sort of works. I don't know how it sort of works.”
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“This is going to have a negative repercussion. I never thought that the system was going to move away just because of that. I honestly think that sometimes you British people, you do not know what you have. So please don't waste it.”
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“To me, it really, when I came to London, was the beginning of a love story with this country. And I was coming from a very close traditional culture where I was brought up in a village, in the middle of Spain. I studied law. It was very clear that if you study law, it's because you are going to become a lawyer and if you become a lawyer, you are going to work on XYZ. And that was my track. And I couldn't move away from it. And then I came to London. I thought, oh, I need to reinvent myself. How do I do this? And I started going just to talk to people to get ideas. And the very first time somebody told me, they asked me, so what do you want to do? And I say, you think that I can choose? You know, that was a revolution for me. And the freedom that I have always felt in this country, you know, I have done interviews. I have said this. I have criticized the prime minister, whatever. Never, ever.”
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“I think that probably you and I look at power differently to how they look at it. For them, changes power. They do not necessarily understand the political power. They tend to look at politics as something a little bit alien to them. And it is understandable. All this has been basically generated in California. When you are in California, the first thing that strikes you is like, wow, I'm so far away from any center of power. I had never lived so far away from centers in Spain, in Brussels, in London, wherever. There is something there with power. In California, you need to take an airplane six hours from it to find the center of power. So our concept of power is probably not the one they share.”
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“They are an extraordinary country. It takes a while to focus the minds, but once they do, I mean, they really are like a tank. They go with the strength.”
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“My experience is that they are very tough. And when I have been doing fundraising for inspiring girls, I mean, you cannot come just with a half-cooked plan. They would take it as any other business and they want to see the results and the delivery. I suspect, I mean, I don't know exactly the situation that you have faced, but I suspect that what has happened in the last few months is that they have refocused all their efforts on the race and artificial intelligence. To me, it's the most significant thing that has happened lately, that when I went to California four years ago, the discussion was this is a race, who is going to come out first in the last six months. We have seen the US pushing the accelerator. They have managed to go ahead. Now the issue is, is China going to cope and be able to come to this level? And what is going to be their next big announcement?”
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“And then going to the US, and it's like all these pessimism that we have in Europe, and it's like, we just need to move away from that and we need to start doing things. And they are all about the future. All the conversations are about the future. Once you are there, it's about making it bigger. It's unbelievable, really.”
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“Just the person on my own rather than attached to anybody else. And I saw many, many women not working there. But in terms of the economy and how they look at the world, A is very humbling because you realize once you are there that they don't really look at any of us. You know, they are only looking at China. That's about it. It's very interesting that they don't look at China in the Pacific direction. They still look at China kind of in the European and then they come to China. But that is what worries them. They are totally focused on that. And it really makes you thinking, wow, we really need to catch up and to accelerate all this. But what they really do have is tremendous optimism. And to me, it did change my life. I mean, the two big moments in my life when I changed everything. One was coming to the UK that I discovered the freedom of you can do whatever you want.”
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“Well, for me, it was a cultural shock when I went there, probably because I was thinking, oh, well, you know, California, they speak English. They are basically what, you know, and I have always been an Anglophile my whole life working for British companies, British politicians, you know, everything. And these people are not really British at all. They are Germans who speak English. Is a world of engineers super young. There is a very conservative side to it. I have mentioned it earlier in relation to women. I felt at the beginning, oh, wow, you know, I'm going backwards in terms of having to be seen as”
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“Talking about your husband is always difficult, right? Because you don't know him as a public figure. You know him as your husband, the person who is there all the time. I do think that Nick is very, very level-headed. He has a lot of perspective always on things, and he's somebody who I think has always had a hinterland. See, he is able to use that to kind of look at, you know, this is happening right now, but can we look at this in the longer term? I tend to be much more impatient. Yes. I want to call it emotional for any British person, we Spaniards are emotional.”
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“I don't know whether it is understanding, but lack of realism from those who criticize that situation and mostly come from labor, really, in terms of the economic situation of this country. This country is not the US. It doesn't have a currency of reference. So like Spain, it has to live within its means. And you can step out a little bit, but generally speaking, you need to have credibility in terms of if we go through a difficult situation, we cannot simply put more money than we could afford in the long term on the table. And that is tough for some of us. I wish we had the dollar, but we do not have it. And the best manner to handle countries, it is having realism. Realism about the geographical position of the country and the economic position of the country.”
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“You know, the cuts that labor had on the table just before were bigger and faster than what actually happened in the coalition. And I think I have no doubts that there would have been many mistakes and things that could have been done differently. And I also understand that in a run-up to an election where everybody's thinking and some even hoping that there would be political change, you know, you build some narrative that is much easier to build around the conservatives, taking it from the very beginning of the conservative arrival to power till the very end. And that includes that period. But I think that even Alistair would concede that this image that sometimes labor tries to put forward of, you know, the politicians were waking up, even those that I didn't like and I didn't cook for. They woke up and they would say, where am I going to create that?”
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“Where do I go now? If I turn a little bit here, problem, if I turn there and all those difficult decisions were taken, it ended up being one of the countries that grew most by 2015. I think that it is terrible that after all, that of course is traumatic to come through all that, but it's terrible that then the country didn't take that and continue growing. It all has been wasted, all that effort is terrible really.”
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“Well, it's very difficult for small parties, but especially in everywhere. But it's particularly difficult in a country where you have such strong media on one particular side of the political spectrum as you have here in the UK. So you are constantly fighting four or five different battles at the very same time. I think that with hindsight, it is already possible to see that, you know, when everybody was saying, oh, yeah, there is going to be no stability, the country is going to collapse, whatever. Well, it was by comparison to what has happened later, a period of tremendous stability where lots of very, very difficult decisions. And I think that sometimes labor forgets where the situation was just before the coalition. This was a period where many countries were, you know, it was like driving and in the fog.”
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“And with David Cameron, it was very different. He came with his wife and I, you know, proud a Spaniard. I did a roast fish that I, you know, I went through so much trouble to find a wonderful piece of fish there and I baked it. And of course, in Spain, we eat fish with bones. So I realized that I served this with so many bones. It was such a terrible picture, everybody with their hands in the mouth. Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. So thank God there was no media there.”
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“He had a takeaway. It was terrible. But it really does happen. You know, the Mayones curdles and the cakes don't rise and it's beyond me.”
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“Well, Alistair is referring to the fact that once the former Chancellor came to my house and I refused to cook for him, but it's because I can, honestly, it's not personal. I cannot cook for people that I don't like. And at that time, I didn't like him. I have respect, intellectual respect for him. But it was a very difficult relationship.”
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“I was not, but I was told that they played the ode of joy in the day. We should have the Europeans should have copyright on that. So that Tory politicians should have to ask for permission to play that at the wedding.”
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“Don't we know that that is happening everywhere? Even Trump himself, you know, he didn't deliver on his rhetoric. And if anything, you look at the mandate of Trump and you say, well, he didn't manage to do half as much as what he said that he was going to do. I don't know if he gets a second mandate, whether he would be able to do it or not. I don't know. I think that in Latin America, the situation is very different. It's super worrying what is happening there from both left and extreme left and extreme right. My own feeling, and I dealt with relations with Latin America and the European Union for many years, is that part of the reason in Latin America is a failure of the elite. The elite hasn't taken up responsibility. They have been living with huge differences of income that were obscene in many cases.”
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“Because the political parties, I mean, the case of Spain is even more pronounced than in the UK. In the UK, at least some parties are open, some more open than others, but some are open. What Nick did, for example, from outside the Liberal Democrats at some point when he was working in Brussels to step in and to become leader of that, there is no way anybody can do it in Spain. There is a pyramid and you need to be within the hierarchy of the pyramid. So there are no challenges.”
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“If you had a way to be involved in politics and to shape the policies that affect you, 88% tell us that they would want to do that. So there has to be a way to allow them to get into politics that it is different. And in the last 15 years or so, we do everything differently. We travel differently. We entertain ourselves differently. We educate ourselves differently. We work differently. The only thing that doesn't change is how we get involved into politics. That is why we are trying to see whether we can create a different kind of instrument that obviously doesn't take the legitimacy away from the political parties. That's very important, but that is a different way to get involved. And I think that we need to start innovating and we need the political entrepreneurs, I think, in every country.”
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“Power is allocated in the UK. Obviously, it was going to provoke a massive reaction. He probably tried to do it too early on. You know, he probably needs the years to look at it with that perspective. But coming back to something that you said, Rory, about attracting young people to politics. And we have the same problem in Spain. Many young people, you know, they are repel. They don't want to have anything to do with it. We only managed to attract the polarize ones on both sides. And part of the reason, you know, we have done quite a lot of polling in Spain about it. When we ask young people and in small groups, when we have the results of the 50,000 young people we will have better figures. But we ask them, what does politics suggest to you? Oh, dirty. I don't want to have anything to do with it.”
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“Of course, it's hard, and we all fail at different things in our professional careers. It happens only very now and then that you fail spectacularly in front of everybody. There are the cameras there looking at you. And that no matter how strong you are, and he certainly was super strong dealing with the criticism of media from all different corners for many years. That is a hard thing to deal with, but it is true that when you come out the other side, you can come out much stronger. I think that he will have to explain himself what he thinks led to that situation. When I look at it with my Spanish perspective, I think that trying to change some of the fundamentals of how”
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“And we have been around that discussion for so many years now. There is no way that the UK is going to replace what it had with Europe, with anybody else. The only option would be a really good deep, sophisticated agreement with the US. There is no way that the US is going to get into that. It doesn't work in their interest. And if they wanted to do that, they would probably not do that with the UK. There would be many other candidates. So the only way forward is to try to come to a better situation with the UK, whether it is outside the membership or inside the membership. I don't want to put this in the sense of all the issues around the UK side. There are big issues on the European side. Europe needs to reform. And it's a continent right now drown on procedures and bureaucracy and we need simplified. And the UK played a really good role.”
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“Meant that from one day to the other, we woke up and we saw the world divided in blocks. So that idea that the UK could be a free spirit running in a very agile manner between different countries, that was off the table. So all that together has led to the situation we have today.”
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“It was always clearly the very wrong idea. And you cannot, from a movement that basically is nationalistic, get to something that is global. It's almost a contradiction in terms. I think that there are many reasons why things have not been done well. So Asia had a decision that didn't make any sense. That happened for whatever circumstances. But if you look at it objectively, of course it doesn't make any sense for the UK to step away from its biggest market, its source of international influence, at least to increase the international influence. In addition to that, lots of very bad, very bad decisions. I think that the hard Brexit was a killer. We started seeing”
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“I think it has been without any doubt tremendous damage and tremendous damage on both sides. I think that the situation in the UK is obvious to everybody, if anything to me. It has been a surprise to see not just the effect on the economy and on trade, but how quickly the UK has lost a lot of the international clout. And that has been a little bit faster than I thought it could be. It has been tremendous damage in Europe. I mean, Europe is very much in a defensive position now. And when you live, as I have done in the US for a while and you look at this part of the world, you think, oh my goodness, everything is huge. The US is huge. China is huge. India is huge. Why are we the Europeans trying to make ourselves smaller? It's just, you know, it doesn't make any sense.”
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“Which is great, there is a feeling that it may keep coming. So one of the things that I keep saying in Spain is like, we need to be able to live within our means to be fully independent financially, not only because we need it as a country. It's like we need it in Europe. Countries that have been there for many years, like Spain has, need to start being net contributors and not to be net recipients.”
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“I think that in Spain it's even more pronounced than in Italy because of the particular historical circumstances of the country. So during the dictatorship, nobody had to worry about money because why would you? You have no power on that. Then immediately Spain got a whole lot of money because of the accession to the EU when things started getting better. Then, you know, there was not enough reform. And we went down in 2008. Despite Spain doesn't score particularly highly on financial services. We managed to recover a little and then COVID came and it hit back very hardly on Spain despite that was a global pandemic. So very clearly the fact that it hits the country hard is because of the internal circumstances of the country, not because those are things that only happen to Spain. And I think that in a way all that money coming from”
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“Well, very little because there is very little political discussion really during the election. The election has been very much about one candidate attacking the other, the manifestos do not really have concrete policy ideas. General about, I call them letters to Santa. It's like in an ideal world, I would like to do X, Y, Z, not a single figure. There are no costings attached to the political manifestos, but what we have done is to put the focus on debates with citizens. You need to talk to the people. And there is a very concrete thing that we have done, and it's the campaign of the Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, is Mejor Espa ⁇ a. So they are obviously listening, not to the substance, we want them to listen to the substance, but at least they are listening to the substance. Slogans.”
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“Some of that we operate with open groups. We have just started, so two months ago is incredible detraction that we have got in just 60 days. But we operate with open groups of citizens from all different areas. They just need to have an interest or to know about the area. We start by listening to the people. We are conducting, for example, a megapoll of 50,000 young people. It has never been done and that concept of listening to the citizens is almost revolutionary in Spain. But we obviously apply a very rational analytic methodology at the very beginning. It's like, you know what is the problem? What is the solution? What have others done about it? Does this work, et cetera, et cetera? So it's not just general discussion. It's a mixture between that general discussion and an analytical methodology.”
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“Is none of that, and all of that at the same time. So we are trying to create a new space where Spanish people of different ideologies can put the ideologies aside and start working on the solutions to the problems of the country, not on how to get votes, but how can we work out the range of solutions and then we all understand that socialists will put a code of ideology on that solution and a conservative, a different perspective. And I as a liberal would put a different perspective. But at the very least, we need to have the solutions. It's an open platform for absolute”
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“Even much more agile, faster situation that requires big, quick decisions. We have poor leadership. We have nationalism that in the case of the UK comes from a reaction to Europe. In the case of Spain, the reaction to Catalanism and the Basque Country. And all that explodes into what polarization and populism.”
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“Well, I think that in the case of Spain, it's a little bit different to the UK and the US in the sense that in the UK and the US, what you have is a system with checks and balances that whenever the populace go to power, as you say, they start breaking those systems. In Spain, we never had those checks and balances. We have to put them in and obviously the political parties don't have any interest whatsoever to do proper political reform because they will lose power, which is, by the way, why I'm trying to instill the concept of reform from outside the political parties with Espana Mejor. But where, if I may, where I think that the situation is very similar is that in the case of Brazil or the UK or Spain, we have countries that are having difficulty to adapt to a new economic phase.”
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“Like Spain, you know, issues of nepotism and lack of transparency and giving contracts to friends and so on that never happened here, that happened much more in Spain, that patronage and clientelism now is happening here. So that's, yeah, I don't know what country is worse. We just need to get them both to a mechor state.”
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“Well, I don't know. I think that there is a mess in both countries, and to me, it's a source of enormous frustration because obviously I love my country, but I love the UK too. I have spent decades dreaming of the Spanish political system becoming more like the UK political system. You know, when I was living here, I used to go to talk to Spanish people, say, look, they have conflict of interest systems and this is clean. And when there is something wrong, you know, everybody steps in and it doesn't become such a big issue and the media really controls it. And they are resigning sometimes for even swapping points for driving badly or whatever. And now to my frustration, the problem is not that Spain has become like the UK. It's that the UK is becoming more and more.”
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“From the transition we had a constitution that gave a lot of power to the political parties to make sure that nothing went in the wrong direction. So they were given all this enormous amount of power. The problem is that they kept it and they grew it. So now we need kind of like the second transition, which is to give back that power to people so that people control the power rather than people serving power.”
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“He started in what was called UCD, which was the party of the first president of the country. We call it president rather than prime minister, who was very much a moderate center person, Adolfo Suarez. And then that party collapsed because it was a sort of coalition, so to speak, bits and pieces from different parties just putting the interest of the country above the ideologies. And then he moved to many of them, went to the conservatives, and many of them towards the left. I think that I am much more of a traditional liberal in the sense that the thing that obsesses me in my country is to make sure that there are checks and balances and pie that is the root of all the issues that Spain has, is that we do not have enough checks and balances. And this comes really”
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“But then, for example, I have been for four years living in California and you would not believe how many women either don't work or there is, I think, that that model of the ideal family means that they tend to go for one member of the family working, another one not working. You know, you look at tech, very, very few women, those who are visible, they tend to be totally curated, so they don't give an image of authenticity that the girls can then use. So there are issues everywhere, really.”
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“It's actually rather similar. I think that sometimes British people or American people think that, oh, well, there is much more of a macho attitude in Spain. I actually think that.”
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“Completely. Well, I think, listen, we are not equal. That is, if you look at the top of pretty much every profession, women tend to be around 10, 12%. So, you know, there is a real issue with access to powerful roles in particular. We do know that there is a lack of self-confidence that affects girls more than boys. And we do know because the OECD does really good measurements of this, that there is a fear of failure that happens in girls, that does not happen in boys. And a lot of this is just inheritance. And a lot of this is also like the stereotypes that we still let in society. For me, more than analyzing in a lot of detail, why have we come to this point? It's like, can we sort it? And this one we can sort it.”
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“Was her physics teacher. She has taught three or four generations of people in my village. So in a way the things that I saw myself, something that worries me is that many years later there are still girls who feel that obviously there are more female role models that they can have access to than I had at my time. But they still complain that they don't have access to enough. And I thought, well, how stupid there are millions of amazing female role models. Let's connect them with the girls.”
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“When I was born in Spain at the end of the dictatorship, and I was really lucky that I managed to, you know, my early years were the years of the transition to democracy in Spain. That was a period of remarkable social mobility. But it is true that at that time there were very few female role models that I could look up to. So many women in my village didn't work. My mom was one of the few ones who actually worked there and had to justify all the time that she was not disrespecting my father by doing so.”
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“Not really as the best mentoring. It's kind of like the initial stage of just showing to girls all the different things that women already do and telling them, look, whatever you do, that is up to you. Just look around and look at the possibilities. And once that you do, just try to make an effort because in life everything is better if you make an effort, of course.”
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“Transparing girls is a very simple organization. All that it aims to do is to connect girls with women who can inspire them, women from all walks of life and it has had tremendous success. We have just reached our seventh year and we are in 32, about to be 33 countries because this week we are going to open up in Emirates and there are thousands of women, all sorts of women in all sorts of jobs working, not working, all young, whatever, going back to schools or either doing it remotely and going to tell girls what they do and how they can become what they have become. And we do an awful lot also in social media because we feel that we need to use social media to get girls in the right direction.”
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