it, but the organisation concerned said they did feel they were facing a number of obstacles with it. 10.28am: Hunt says he was asking for his "locus to express an opinion that might be taken into consideration by Dr Cable". He interpreted the advice to mean he should not have an external conversation that could be seen as an intervention in Cable's oversight of the bid. Hunt adds that he did not believe he could not speak to industry figures about the bid. Robinson reports that Hunt originally believed that Adam Smith, his special adviser, had done nothing wrong in his contacts with News Corp's Frdric Michel and that the culture secretary was prepared to resign himself. 1. Why did you agree to talk to James Murdoch on the telephone on 15 November, when you had been explicitly told by your permanent secretary that you could not meet him? Were you seeking to get information from him that could be used to influence David Cameron and pressurise Vince Cable? 2. Why did you draft a memo to the prime minister on 19 November, after having spoken to a "pretty furious" James Murdoch, asking that he intervene to rein in Vince Cable -- after you had been told by the DCMS legal director, Patrick Kilgarriff, that it would be unwise to get involved? 3. What did you mean when you wrote that the coalition "could end up in the wrong place in terms of media policy" and that it would be