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Vince Cable accuses Tories of cynical, ugly politics
Business secretary tells Lib Dem conference that Conservatives have reverted to type as nasty party.
Vince Cable said the Tories were hostile towards immigrants and people on benefits, and disapproved
of a long list of other groups.
The business secretary, Vince Cable, has launched a series of audacious broadsides against the Tories,
saying he never agreed to join a coalition with Ukip, and dismissing them as cynical purveyors of fear and
champions of an ugly politics.
He told the Liberal Democrat party conference in Glasgow: "Theresa May once described the Tories,
a decade ago, as the nasty party. After a few years trying to be nice and inclusive it has reverted
to type: dog-whistle politics, orchestrated by an Australian rottweiler [strategist Lynton Crosby].
"Hostility towards organised labour, people on benefits and immigrant minorities. The list of people the Tories
disapprove of is even longer: public sector workers, especially teachers; the unmarried; people who
don't own property. Their core demographic excludes pretty much anybody who wouldn't have qualified
for the vote before the 1867 Reform Act."
Cable accused the Conservatives of "a cynical calculation in difficult times that fear trumps hope;
that competence requires callousness. That is not our kind of politics. It is ugly. And we will not be
dragged down by it."
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