He had approvedthe energy company's bidforUnocalafterbeing told by consultants in the United States that therewouldn't be any problems, the cable indicates.
Nick Robinson said Mr Cable's article had been approved by George Osborne's advisers and the business secretary was clear that he did not support Labour's broader call for the pace of deficit reduction to be slowed and for tax cuts to stimulate demand.
In 1995 the commission approved rules which required accounting separation between telecommunications services and cable operations to prevent illegal cross-subsidization of the new services.