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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/i-could-quit-coalition-warns-cable.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Business Secretary Vince Cable says he could quit the coalition government" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-i-could-quit-coalition-warns-cable.jpg" alt="Business Secretary Vince Cable says he could quit the coalition government"/></a></p>
<p>Vince Cable has privately indicated that he could walk out of the coalition and &#8220;bring the Government down&#8221; if he is &#8220;pushed too far&#8221; in negotiations with Tory ministers, it has been disclosed.</p>
<p>The Liberal Democrat Business Secretary was recorded telling undercover reporters from the Daily Telegraph that the situation with the coalition was &#8220;like fighting a war&#8221; and that he could use the &#8220;nuclear option&#8221;. He also told the reporters &#8211; posing as constituents in his Twickenham constituency &#8211; that he believed David Cameron wanted to reduce or scrap altogether the winter fuel allowance for pensioners.</p>
<p>Mr Cable &#8211; the most senior Lib Dem member of the coalition after Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg &#8211; said in a statement that he was &#8220;embarrassed&#8221; by his remarks but insisted that he had no intention of resigning.</p>
<p>However his frank comments will raise fresh questions over whether the Tory-Lib Dem coalition can survive intact until the planned date of the next general election in May 2015.</p>
<p>During his conversation with the undercover reporters Mr Cable said he had been involved in &#8220;big argument&#8221; over how to deal with the banks, with the Lib Dems pressing for a &#8220;very tough approach&#8221; which was opposed by &#8220;our Conservative friends&#8221;. He said that while he had to pick his fights carefully, he was prepared to use the ultimate sanction and resign if he was pushed too hard by the Conservatives.</p>
<p>&#8220;I have a nuclear option; it&#8217;s like fighting a war. They know I have nuclear weapons, but I don&#8217;t have any conventional weapons. If they push me too far then I can walk out and bring the Government down and they know that,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;So it is a question of how you use that intelligently without getting involved in a war that destroys all of us. That is quite a difficult position to be in and I am picking my fights. Some of which you may have seen.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Cable also criticised the speed at which the coalition was trying to push through change, without thinking through properly what they were doing, and suggested the Lib Dems should be &#8220;putting a brake on it&#8221;.</p>
<p>Shadow business secretary John Denham said that Mr Cable&#8217;s comments revealed a government &#8220;paralysed&#8221; by infighting among ministers &#8220;This infighting explains why the Tory-led government has three times abandoned plans to publish a plan for growth. The Government is paralysed while millions wonder if their job will go next,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>A Labour Party spokesman added: &#8220;Vince Cable&#8217;s unguarded words show this really is a Tory-led government. Under David Cameron&#8217;s premiership, the Lib Dems have broken promises on VAT, tuition fees and police numbers and got little in return.&#8221;</p>
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