Vince Cable Quotes

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.

The immediate preoccupation is to work with people in other parties to stop Brexit, but in the longer term there may well be realignment because of the deep splits in the parties and I want my party to be at the centre of it.

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

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

These masters of the universe must be tamed in the interests of the ordinary families whose jobs and livelihoods are being put at risk... The Tories won't say anything about the current crisis as they are completely in the pockets of the hedge funds.

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

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...

Brexit will make us poorer and risks breaking up our United Kingdom. We must stop it and we will.

[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 didn't break a promise. We made a commitment in our manifesto, we didn't win the election. We then entered into a coalition agreement, and it's the coalition agreement that is binding upon us and which I'm trying to honour,

No-one has come up with a plausible explanation about how leaving [the EU] will make us better off than we are inside. Nobody has come up with a plausible explanation about how this process can be managed in a way that does not cause enormous cost and enormous damage.

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

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