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'Vince Cable on the Rock, coalition and defending his budget'

August 7, 2010 12:06 PM

• [Aug 05] William Green* writes: HERE is a revealing interview I did with Business Secretary Vince Cable yesterday ahead of him visiting the region today. The senior Lib Dem has been painted as uncomfortable with the coalition, but he told me that he intends to stay in the Cabinet for five years - the planned term of the Government.

. . he signalled he was ready to fight the Treasury over the scale of cuts, saying: "My department's concern is that we are able to continue to support growth.

"And I certainly want to emerge from this with a budget that enables us to do that in higher and further education, and science. But how we do it, we are still at very early discussions with the Treasury."

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