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My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets that have been neglected in the past. It means keeping Britain open to inward investors, trade and skilled workers. It means cutting red tape which is suffocating growing companies which create jobs.

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Jobs, Mean, Cutting

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My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.

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Girl, College, Environment

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The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.

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Skills, Long, Growth

"Full text: Vincent Cable's speech to the Lib Dem conference" by Vincent Cable, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2005.

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Much of the shadow banking sector, a major contributor to the economic crisis, was also only possible because of taxhaven secrecy.

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Shadow, Banking, Economic

"The offensive secrecy of tax havens" by Vincent Cable, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2009.

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Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.

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Responsibility, Abuse, Weak

"Banking scandal: 'the rot was widespread, the corruption endemic'" by Vince Cable, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2012.

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No, and in fact I get a bit frustrated, because I'm actually quite good at one-liners, and I've had hundreds of them over the years, and they sink without trace, and I get very frustrated. Every party conference I really work on the speeches, and I always have two or three things I'm quite proud of, and no one ever remembers them.

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Party, Years, Two

"Vince Cable: 'What we're managing is quite a difficult situation'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2010.

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I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and explosive but if he taught me one thing it was to air my views.

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Father, Air, Views

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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 profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.

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Real, Recovery, Long

"George Osborne's campaign against Ed Balls hit by fresh Libor revelation" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2012.

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When Gordon Brown becomes prime minister, the balance sheet that reflects his economic stewardship could look very sickly indeed. He could become Labour's biggest liability, not its most marketable asset.

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Balance, Looks, Stewardship

"Cable calls for cuts" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2005.

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Many of our problems are home-grown. Gordon Brown regularly advised the rest of the world to follow his British model of growth. But the model was flawed. It led to the highest level of household debt in relation to income in the world.

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Home, Growth, Income

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Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.

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Government, Engineering, Support

"Vince Cable takes on chancellor over plans for cuts in science" by Daniel Boffey, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2012.

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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.

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Anger, Apology, Crow

Liberal Democrat conference: Vince Cable speech, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2010.

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Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market.

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Choices, Competition, Needs

"Vince Cable launches £110m loan scheme aimed at small firms" by Patrick Collinson, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

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I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that.

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Two, Happy Marriage, Conclusion

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So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.

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Government, Mind, Done

"The Saturday interview: Vince Cable" by Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2011.

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Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.

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Team, Office, London

Vincent Cable's speech to the Lib Dem conference, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2005.

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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.

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Cat, Cutting, Thinking

"Vince Cable hits out at 'backward' Tory rightwingers" by Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2012.

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I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and we're also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing.

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Real, Thinking, Greek

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I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing.

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Father, Boys, Views

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I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.

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Men, Thinking, Pie

"What's in your basket, Vince Cable?" by Rebecca Seal and Dr John Briffa, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2009.

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The degree of leverage now being reversed is on a staggering scale, and the underlying global imbalances – notably between the savers and the spenders – will require long and painful adjustment.

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Pain, Long, Degrees

"The Storm: The World Economic Crisis and What It Means".

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For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.

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Mean, Government, Support

"Vince Cable takes on chancellor over plans for cuts in science" by Daniel Boffey, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2012.

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Fundamental renegotiation is very, very unlikely to produce any significant change

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Significant Change, Fundamentals, Unlikely

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Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules unlike their continental equivalents. This has emerged to be one of the main bottlenecks to getting investment going in the U.K. It is a Bank of England issue.

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Issues, Use, Association

"Vince Cable hits out at 'backward' Tory rightwingers" by Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2012.

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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 are not allowed to see their MP.

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Mps, People, Vote

"Lib Dems and Galloway defend absences" by Matthew Tempest and Ros Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2005.

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