Mr Cable will back the motion at the party’s spring conference in Brighton calling for an end to the Tories’ “slash and burn” policies
Nick Clegg will be dealt a fresh blow today as leading Lib Dems including Vince Cable mount an explosive bid to rock the Coalition.
Mr Cable will back a rebel motion at the party’s spring conference in Brighton calling for an end to the Tories’ “slash and burn” policies.
It also looks forward to 2015 “when this Coalition Government will be over” – an attack on David Cameron and Mr Clegg, who have hinted they may form another coalition after the next General Election.
But Mr Cable and left-leaning Lib Dems want closer ties with Labour and will urge colleagues to resist spending cuts beyond the Coalition’s lifetime.
The Business Secretary said yesterday: “If you go back to the same departments taking more than proportional cuts, you do disproportionate damage.”
Rebels will also renew demands for a mansion tax on houses worth more than £2million and will call for 100,000 new homes a year to be built by 2015 – including 50,000 council properties.
They will say: “Conference calls on Lib Dem ministers to show unity and resolve not only to reduce the deficit but to take radical action to get growth with a bold Plan A+.”
Meanwhile Mr Clegg will today tell the conference the Lib Dems are “delivering change” in power and are no longer a “party of protest”.
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