There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
We've got to get back on track to working with them. Because if I and my colleagues are going to continue to… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets that have been neglected in the… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world, the automobile… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt -… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
The government increasingly resembles somebody who is trying to give the kiss of life to a corpse. — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
Fundamental renegotiation is very, very unlikely to produce any significant change — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
Quite apart from the problem of the vote, it's bad for the image of Parliament that people take the trouble to come up and… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets.… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that. — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment,… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
The Robert Mugabe school of economics provides a salutary warning about uncontrolled monetary expansion in generating hyper-inflation. The road to Harare is not as… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
Much of the shadow banking sector, a major contributor to the economic crisis, was also only possible because of taxhaven secrecy. — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
