Vince Cable Quotes

[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

The old have comprehensively shafted the young

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

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.

[Young people felt their future had been] taken away from them by a very narrow majority

In a Britain increasingly dominated by extremists and ideologues, I want us to fill the huge gap in the centre of British politics.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

I have declared war on Mr Murdoch and I think we are going to win.

[London] is becoming a giant suction machine draining the life out of the rest of the country

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.