http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/nov/13/tory-mp-corby-anti-windfarm-film
Conservative MP Chris Heaton-Harris is recorded by an undercover investigator for Greenpeace apparently supporting the campaign of anti-wind farm campaigner Link to this video The Conservative MP running the party's byelection bid in Corby has been secretly filmed apparently supporting the campaign of a rival candidate.
Chris Heaton-Harris, who is campaign manager for the Tories in Corby, was recorded saying he encouraged an anti-wind farm candidate to join the election race against the Tories, adding: "Please don't tell anybody ever."
The footage, covertly recorded by the environmental group Greenpeace, captures the MP saying the independent anti-wind farm candidate, James Delingpole, had announced his candidacy as part of a "plan" to "cause some hassle" and drive the wind issue up the political agenda. He is also filmed claiming he helped Delingpole by providing him with "a handful of people who will sort him out", including the deputy chairman of his own constituency party, who had stood down and then became the anti-wind candidate's campaign agent.
Delingpole, a Telegraph writer and climate change sceptic, withdrew from the race two weeks ago the day after the energy minister, John Hayes, gave a controversial interview to the Daily Mail in which he said the development of onshore wind farms in Britain should be reined in. Asked by the Guardian whether his comments to the Daily Mail were timed to coincide with Delingpole withdrawing his candidacy, Hayes said: "James Delingpole was never a candidate in this byelection." He did not deny he had been communicating with Delingpole via Heaton-Harris.
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