Sir Vince Cable has retained the Twickenham seat he lost in 2015 for the Lib Dems.
The former government minister beat the Tories’ Dr Tania Mathias, who gained his former seat in the previous election.
He polled 34,969 votes, with Dr Mathias receiving 25,207 votes.
Labour Party’s Katherine Dunne was third in the three-horse race with 6,114 votes.
Sir Vince lost his seat in the political bloodbath suffered by the Liberal Democrats in 2015.
He was first elected in 1997 and was made business secretary in one of the cabinet appointments given to the junior partners in the coalition in 2010.
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Cambridge-educated and with a doctorate from Glasgow University, Sir Vince has had a long career in finance and government, working variously as a treasury finance office for the Kenyan government, first secretary in the diplomatic service, deputy director of the Overseas Development Institute as special adviser on economic affairs for the Commonwealth Secretary General.
In the 1990s he worked for oil giant Shell International, becoming their chief economist in 1995, before being elected to parliament in 1997.
He was Lib Dem spokesman on trade and industry, and then the party’s shadow chancellor from 2003 until 2010, when the party entered coalition with the Tories and he became business, innovation and skills secretary.
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