The Business Secretary has 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 consequently 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 News International newspapers would punish the Lib Dems if he blocked the bid - but he refused a meeting with James Murdoch during the process.