After the Storm review – erudite analysis from Vince Cable

The politician's review of government economic policy during his years in the coalition is lucid, intelligent - and damning

This is the sequel to Vince Cable's widely praised account of the events surrounding the great crash of 2008. It is a lucid, erudite analysis of the global economy, and Britain's place in it, in the five years between 2010 and 2015, as viewed from the vantage point of someone who was a senior member of the coalition.

It is emphatically not a memoir, although he does offer insights into the tensions between the coalition partners. There are references to "ideologically driven spending cuts". George Osborne is said to possess "a ruthless eye for party advantage" and Cable nails the lie so assiduously peddled, not only by the Tories but by some of his Liberal Democrat colleagues, that the crisis of 2008 was caused by Labour mismanagement of the public finances: ""not true", he says.

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