Sir Vince Cable makes his final Spring Conference speech as Leader " we are committed to tackling the underlying causes of Brexit. " " What is democracy if it is not the right for a country to change its mind?" " It is dividing families, communities, and even the United Kingdom and sucking the energy out of government. "Anyone who imagines that getting Theresa May's proposed Brexit through Parliament at the - third, fourth, fifth - time of asking will bring closure and stability is suffering from serious self-delusion." "If Brexit is a political Everest, we have only just got to the Base Camp. " What a sad state of affairs that our main safeguard against Home Office tyranny is its own chronic inefficiency." "There are millions of Conservative voters who are disgusted with the incompetence, the self-indulgence and the inhumanity of this Tory Government but so long as Labour appears to be a nightmare, they will cling to the Tory nurse, for fear of something worse. "It is a sobering thought that just under 2,0