We were delighted that Rt. Hon Sir Vince Cable, former leader of the Liberal Democrats joined the Whitehall Group as guest speaker on Thursday, 25th March at 2.30pm. During a 30-minute interview style discussion Sir Vince discussed ‘China: Engage! Avoid the New Cold War’.
Please click on the link below for a recording of this discussion:
https://goodbody.wistia.com/medias/9jcnr3uvqh
Sir John Vincent Cable is a British politician who was Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2017 to 2019. He was Member of Parliament for Twickenham from 1997 to 2015 and from 2017 to 2019. He also served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills from 2010 to 2015. Cable was born in York, to a working-class Conservative-supporting family. His father, Len, was a craftsman for Rowntree’s, and his mother, Edith, packed chocolates for Terry’s. Cable attended Nunthorpe Grammar School where he became Head Boy. He then attended Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he initially studied Natural Sciences and later switched to Economics. He was the President of the Cambridge Union in 1965. He was also a committee member and later President-elect of the Cambridge University Liberal Club, but he resigned from the Liberal Party before taking up the office of President. Whilst at Cambridge, he was a contemporary of the Cambridge Mafia.
