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Production: An Audience With Vince Cable
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Vince Cable
Description: MP Vince Cable, The Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman is the oracle, the nation’s favourite guru for the recession.
Dr Cable, a former chief economist at Shell,was ridiculed for suggesting that property prices were too high, that household debt was out of control and that the banking system was fundamentally flawed. But now everyone wants to hear his prophecies.He seems mildly embarrassed to have done so well, politically, out of the downturn. “Most people are very confused about what’s going on. I’ve been willing to take a clear line on what should be done. I’m not sure that’s heroic, but on the basic judgments we have been right.”
Like John Sergeant, with whom he shares a passion for ballroom dancing, he has captured voters’ hearts by being solid rather than flashy. “I dream of owning the latest Aston Martin,” he says. “But in fact I drive a boring Vauxhall.”
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