Vince Cable leads a party that has lost all that it stood for | Deborah Orr

Why didn’t he stand for the Lib Dem leadership 10 years ago? He might have avoided all the calls that led his party to disaster• Deborah Orr is a Guardian columnistVince Cable has become leader of the Lib Dems, and just 10 years after he should have taken his chance. Acting leader after the resignation of Menzies Campbell in 2007, he didn’t stand, leaving Chris Huhne and Nick Clegg to slug it out. The rest is disaster. The best that can be said about Clegg is that at least he wa