"We're being held to ransom by these pinstripe Scargills..."
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Members of the Parliament of the United KingdomEconomists from EnglandPresidents of the Board of Trade (United Kingdom)Liberal Democrats (UK) politiciansPeople from York
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Said about bankers during the chancellors debate on 29 March 2010.
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Vince Cable
PC MP (born 9 May 1943) is a former British politician, who was the for from 1997 until 2015, and from 2017 until 2019. He was the from 2010 to 2015. He has been called 'The Sage of Twickenham'.
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