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| | The Observer | Business | Messages on the Cable channel |
 | | On immigration, for example, where the two main parties have traded tough rhetoric, Cable is relieved that the Lib Dems have 'refused to be drawn into this cheap and demeaning debate, in terms set by Michael Howard, which Blair has rather cravenly followed'. |
 | | Cable also refuses to play along with the auction of promises between Gordon Brown and his Tory counterpart, Oliver Letwin, both of whom are promising that, by slashing billions of pounds of waste from Britain's bureaucracy, they can spend more on public services without having to raise taxes. |
 | | Cable also criticises Brown's tendency to go for policy 'gizmos', without understanding how difficult they are to implement. |
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