Vince Cable Quotes

The old have comprehensively shafted the young

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

We need a proper referendum that will come to a resolution on the issue, with remain on the ballot paper.

Whether you see yourself as a liberal, social democrat, progressive, or centrist there is a home for you here, particularly as we fight Brexit together

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.

There is another word for that - masochism. It isn't illegal. I am told some people pay good money to indulge in it. But unlike masochists, the Brexit ideologues usually envisage someone else bearing the pain. And that pain will mainly be felt by young people who overwhelmingly voted to Remain.

I think the interesting thing about Windrush is that perhaps for the first time the public opinion has been ahead of the politicians in seeing that there is a terrible injustice here and it should not be allowed to pass.

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

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.

Are we going to make a terrible mistake, leaving behind our influence in Europe's most successful peace project and the world's biggest marketplace?

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.

We haven't yet heard about 'Brexit jihadis' but there is an undercurrent of violence in the language which is troubling.

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

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

[I am] struck by the heavily Remain sentiment in colleges and schools, and the heavily Brexit mood of church-hall meetings packed with retired people