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Stephen Tall

Vince Cable, the free redical, and his “primitive five-grade relationship metric”

By Stephen Tall | Mon 12th October 2009 - 9:35 pm

Lib Dem deputy leader Vince Cable’s hotly-anticipated autobiography Free Radical is published next month – you can pre-order a copy from Amazon here – and is currently being serialised in the Mail.

Excerpts published so far deal principally with Vince’s childhood growing up in York, ranging from the personal (his mother’s breakdown) to his occasional delinquency (terrorising neighbourhood cats and dogs with an air rifle) to his mixed emotions when his parents died (“I felt a vague sense of sadness and guilt that there was nothing more: no tears.”).

There’s also an intriguing diversion into Vince’s initiation into early …

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