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British politician (born 1943)

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PC MP (born 9 May 1943) is a former British politician, who was the for from 1997 until 2015, and from 2017 until 2019. He was the from 2010 to 2015. He has been called 'The Sage of Twickenham'.

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Alternative Names: John Vincent Cable • Vincent Cable • Sir John Vincent Cable • Vincent "Vince" Cable

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I'm afraid the referendum resolved nothing and we do have to go back to the people and ask if what is now on offer is what they really voted for. We have got completely different views about what Brexit actually means. What has emerged over the last three years is that the prospectus on which the Leave vote was achieved was based on a tissue of lies to be frank.

I think it's very clear that people in Scotland, as in other parts of the United Kingdom, don't want Brexit to happen. They want to stop it and it can be stopped, and the best mechanism for stopping it is to have a people's vote. I think momentum is building up behind that and I'm trying to work with people in other parties to make sure it happens.

We're being held to ransom by these pinstripe Scargills...

We have long argued it is the right and logical thing to do for the people to have the final say on Brexit.

Some of the brightest and most interesting people in British politics recently have been relatively old,

[We should] go back to the people [with another referendum]

On his central point, the £350m a week, this is a lie. He knows it is a lie and endlessly repeating it does not make it the truth.

[Regarding an EU referendum], it's a distraction. It's a serious distraction. We are recovering from the worst economic crisis for the best part of a century. The last thing we need now is massive levels of uncertainty in the business community.

We're absolutely solid that we need to vote against Brexit and stop it.

The old have comprehensively shafted the young

We must fight for the British public to have a final say on the government's deal with a chance to stay in the EU if the deal is not good enough. To achieve this, we will need to work with like-minded people in other parties.

Growing inequality is linked to poor economic performance, greater instability, more social tension, insecurity and unhappiness.

nostalgia for a world where passports were blue, faces were white and the map was coloured imperial pink

Brexit is not inevitable - it can and it must be stopped,

We are absolutely solid that we need to vote against Brexit and stop it