Queen's Speech - Liberal Democrat reaction
Vince Cable, Acting Leader of the Liberal Democrats commenting on the Queen's Speech said "The anticipation was acute - but the anti-climax is deafening. The legislative programme is firmly rooted in the Blair era. There is very little new. No ideas, no vision. Is this what we have been waiting for? Perhaps, lurking in this Queen's Speech is a genuinely Big Idea: a Conservative-Labour Grand Coalition of policies and ideas. The one time editor of the Red Paper has penned a Queen's speech in the bluest ink. Across wide swathes of policy his approach is indistinguishable from the Tories. On the important issues of the day it is the Liberal Democrats who offer a distinctive voice."
