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Sir Vince Cable has revealed he is not Jesus Christ.

The Lib Dem leader’s astonishing admission followed former leader Paddy Ashdown musing that a centrist ‘people’s movement’, like Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche, had failed to emerge in Britain.

Lord Ashdown told Politico on Friday: “A Corbyn government after this lot is now completely unavoidable, unless the centre gets its act together and does an ‘En Marche.’

“If you want to avoid a Corbyn government, that is what you have to do. All those in the Tory Party who are ‘snuggling close to nurse for fear of something worse’ need to realise — this is a desperate situation. All the things that we have fought for in our country will be damaged.”

Asked where Britain’s Macron was, he added: “Well … there isn’t one. I was saying to someone the other day that John the Baptist has arrived, the public is hungry — but Jesus Christ won’t turn up. But cometh the hour, cometh the man or woman. Let’s wait and see.”

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Asked about the comments by the BBC’s Andrew Marr, Sir Vince said: “Well, I’m certainly not claiming to be Jesus Christ, but I am leading a party which is fundamentally right and united and clear on the biggest issue of the day, which is Brexit.

“And we are winning that argument.”

In the same interview, he insisted Brexit is not “inevitable.”

He said: “It’s not inevitable. I think there’s quite a high possibility that this extremely damaging process can be stopped.”

But he said his party would not necessarily campaign to rejoin the Union after Brexit.

He said: “Returning to the EU once Britain has left, if we do leave, would be much more difficult than staying in. So not necessarily.”

And he insisted he is enjoying his job.

He said: “A year ago I was out of work, I was going round book festivals promoting my novel while I was preparing for a dancing tour.

“But I’ve been in politics in some form or other for half a century.”