Top 15 Vince Cable Quotes

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

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 understand how angry people are on both sides. There are some angry Leavers and there are some very angry Remainers too, particularly young people who feel their future has been taken away from them on the basis of a very narrow majority, where a significant majority of the electorate did not vote and many young people did not get an opportunity to vote.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Liberal democracy itself is under threat notably in the USA, in eastern Europe and perhaps here. Authoritarians and extremists of both right and left are on the march.

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.