The Business Secretary's told the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics he was in "an emotional state" when he told undercover reporters he was declaring "war on Rupert Murdoch."

Vince Cable was then stripped of the responsibility for deciding whether News Corporation's takeover of BSkyB should go ahead. 

He's also told the inquiry that he believed Murdoch's newspapers would punish the Lib Dems if he blocked the bid - but refused a meeting with the mogul's son James during the process.