Chuka Umunna MP, Labour’s Shadow Business Secretary, responding to Vince Cable’s speech at Liberal Democrat conference, said:

“You can’t trust Vince Cable and the Liberal Democrats. They broke their promises and have been too weak to stand up to the Tories.

“They promised to scrap tuition fees and then trebled them, they promised to be on the side of working people, but working people are £1,600 a year worse off since they joined the Tories in government, and they said they wanted fairer taxes but have given millionaires a tax break while everyone else pays more.

“Vince Cable can’t run away from his record as part of the Tory-led Government or try to pretend that Tory policies have nothing to do with the Lib Dems. They voted for them and the Tories couldn’t have done it without them.”

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