Independent minds

Six years after becoming Liberal Demo-crat MP for Twickenham in 1997, Dr Vincent Cable was elected Shadow Chancellor for the party. Since then, he has spoken on a number of economic and financial issues on behalf of the Liberal Demo-crats as well as shadowing and questioning decisions made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown. Looking back at the past two years, Dr Cable thinks regulation has been the number one issue. "What we have seen is the process of settling down of the financial regulation system that was introduced in the late nineties under the Financial Services Auth...