George Osborne is masterminding an effort to undermine the coalition's commitment to be the greenest government ever, a senior Tory has claimed.
In a video secretly filmed by Greenpeace and seen by The Huffington Post UK, Tory MP Peter Lilley says the chancellor "privately regrets all the [green] commitments that have been made".
"Basically I think Osborne wanted to get people into key positions who could begin to get the government off the hook from commitments they made very foolishly," Lilley says.
However Lilley, who sits on the Commons climate change committee, told The Huffington Post UK he was "not filmed surreptitiously" and he would have happily given an interview making the same points if Greenpeace had asked.
"Typical Greenpeace - wedded to deceit," he added.