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Debated Podcast with Vince Cable

By The Voice | Thu 21st August 2025 - 4:09 pm

Debated Podcast is, according to its host Will Barber-Taylor,

… a light hearted British political podcast aimed at speaking to and engaging people about a variety of fascinating topics. Over 200 episodes have been produced and the podcast acts as a non partisan and non politically aligned outlet to discuss some of the key issues of the day around the world but mainly focussed on the UK political scene.

A recent episode was based on a discussion with Vince Cable about his new book Eclipsing the West: China, India and the forging of a new world and is worth listening to. You can hear it here.

Will Barber-Taylor has served as both a town councillor in North Yorkshire and as the Deputy Director of the Centre Think Tank Foundation.

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Vince Cable on the budget: manifesto folly

By Vince Cable | Tue 29th October 2024 - 10:59 am

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‘Read my lips: no new taxes’; ‘we will reduce net immigration to the tens of thousands’; ‘we pledge not to increase tuition fees’. Promises easily made in an election campaign. A source of endless regret in government.

There will be endless regret from Labour’s manifesto commitment not to raise tax rates on taxes accounting for three quarters of tax revenue.  There is an urgent and compelling need to raise taxes in the coming budget for reasons of fiscal prudence and to stem the decline in public services. Yet, despite having an enormous parliamentary majority, the government has denied itself a mandate properly to address these fundamental problems.

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Vince Cable at the Horizon Inquiry

By Mary Reid | Thu 25th July 2024 - 11:49 am

Vince Cable is appearing today at the Post Office Horizon inquiry:

If you miss the live stream you can catch up here.

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A postcard from Sir Vince in Kyiv

By Vince Cable | Sun 24th September 2023 - 6:51 am

The main evidence of war in Kyiv in the last few days has been a series of loud bangs in the middle of the night – Russian rockets meeting Patriot Missiles apart from the one which got through and hit a power plant.

Otherwise, Kyiv is a normal and beautiful, bustling European city of 3.5 million with busy pavement cafes and restaurants, flourishing shopping centres and street stalls, traffic jams and young people zooming round on e-scooters. After a while you notice the numbers of burly off-duty soldiers in uniform, the exhibitions in civic squares honouring war casualties and the forest of flags to the memory of those who died in Maidan Square in the 2014 Orange revolution. So, not so normal. A war for national survival is taking place, to expel the Russian invaders.

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