- Born
- Birth nameJohn Vincent Cable
- Nickname
- Vince the Cable
- Height5′ 11″ (1.81 m)
- Vince Cable (nicknamed "Vince the Cable" by political journalist and broadcaster Andrew Neil) is a British politician who was the Liberal Democrat MP for Twickenham from 1997 to 2015 and again from 2017. He was the Liberal Democrat Shadow Trade and Industry Minister (1997-2003), Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (2003-2010), Acting Leader of the Liberal Democrats in 2007 and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills under the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government. After Tim Farron resigned from the leadership of the Liberal Democrats in 2017 due to the intense media scrutiny of his religious beliefs, with particular regard to his views on gay sex, Cable was elected as the party's leader.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- The political journalist and broadcaster Andrew Neil often refers to him as "Vince the Cable".
- It's been largely forgotten that Liberal and Labour MPs voted AV through the House of Commons but in 1931 the reform was never completed. Conservative governments have dominated ever since without securing a majority of the popular vote. It's time for the progressive majority in the country to rise above this narrow tribalism and support this reform because we need to make sure the progressive majority wins elections in this century and not the Conservatives as they did, by the back door, for two-thirds of the last century. (On changing First Past the Post in favour of the Alternative Vote in 2011)
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