Vince Cable was MP for Twickenham for twenty years, retiring in 2019. He was Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills and President of the Board of Trade in the Coalition government between 2010 and 2015. He is the author of several acclaimed books, including the memoir Free Radical, the number-one bestseller The Storm, about the banking crisis, the novel Open Arms and, more recently, the non-fiction book Money and Power. He is a regular columnist for The Independent, and is married with three grown children.