article_snippet.sent: Yes, I know,' his shrugs, acknowledging the apparent contradiction, 'I've spent my whole political life fighting Conservatives.'
article_snippet.sent: It's important coming from Mr Cable because I'm the one seen as having the least affinity with the Tories.'
article_snippet.sent: But with Cable, the difference is strictly political, not personal.
article_snippet.sent: Two days after the Election, Cable celebrates the Tories 72nd birthday.
article_snippet.sent: Yet, audaciously, the evergreen septuagenarian has set the evergreen septuagenarian sights on a new star turn – Chancellor in a Tory-led Government. '
article_snippet.sent: But Cable can't resist pointing out: 'I'm quite a bit younger than Gladstone, Churchill and Ronald Reagan.'
article_snippet.sent: All three led governments in Churchill and Ronald Reagan eighth decade.