Vince Cable
Vince Cable was the Liberal Democrats MP for Twickenham from 1997 to 2015. During the coalition government he was secretary of state for business, innovation and skills.[1]
Cable lost his seat in 2015 by 2,017 votes to the Conservative's Tania Mathias.[2]
After the 2015 general election, Cable turned down an offer of a peerage from Nick Clegg in the dissolution honours list. Former Lib Dem MPs David Laws, Simon Hughes and Danny Alexander are also understood to have turned down the offer.[3]
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History
Cable served in the Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet as spokesman on trade and industry from 1999 to 2003. Followed by a role as shadow chancellor from 2003 to 2010. He was deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2006 to 2010. [4]
Outside of politics, Cable worked as treasury finance officer for the Kenyan Government between 1966 and 1968. From 1968 to 1974 he was a lecturer in economics at Glasgow University. He then worked in a range of senior economic and foreign policy roles, before becoming Shell International’s chief economist in 1995. [4]
Education
Cable attended Nunthorpe Grammar School before going to York and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he studied natural science and economics and was President of the Union. He then studied for a PhD at Glasgow University.
Ministerial aides
PPS
- Tessa Munt, MP, was parliamentary private secretary to Cable from 2011 to January 2015, when she resigned after supporting a Commons vote on a fracking moratorium in the UK
Special advisers
Affiliations
- Politeia - Westminster Advisory Council
- Kathrine Bancroft - now at lobbying firm PLMR
Resources
See: Fracking Spads
Notes
- ↑ Her Majesty’s Government, Number10.gov.uk, accessed 12 May 2010.
- ↑ BBC News Twickenham, accessed 11 May 2015.
- ↑ Patrick Wintour Vince Cable among four Lib Dems to turn down Lords offers from Clegg Guardian, 15 May 2015, accessed 18 May 2015.
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