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Vince Cable

British politician
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Also known as: John Vincent Cable
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Peter Kellner
Peter Kellner is the former president of YouGov PLC and the author of Democracy: 1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty and others.
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John Vincent Cable
Born:
May 9, 1943, York, England (age 81)
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Liberal Democrats
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Vince Cable (born May 9, 1943, York, England) is a British politician who served as leader of the United Kingdom’s Liberal Democrats (2017–19), having previously held the posts of deputy party leader (2006–10) and secretary of state for business, innovation, and skills in the Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition government (2010–15). Cable studied economics at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge (B.A., 1966), and served for two years as treasury finance officer in Kenya before returning to the U.K. in 1968 as an economics lecturer at the University of Glasgow, where he received a Ph.D. in 1973. His political career was ignited in the 1970s ...(100 of 632 words)

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