Thursday, March 25, 2010

"I Thought I’d Say the Things that Need to Be Said"

"Cable went to Nunthorpe grammar school (hardly Cameron’s exclusive Eton) and, after Cambridge, was a city councilor in Glasgow. He told me, 'I was a very idealistic left-winger when I started, representing a tough working-class ward.' (The problem, he says, with Cameron and several of his entourage is 'not the fact they went to Eton, it’s the fact they haven’t done anything really.'"

Roger Cohen in The New York Times profiles Vince Cable, a leader of Britain's Liberal Democrats.

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