Penny Mordaunt was taking heat tonight for accepting thousands of pounds from a trustee of a climate-sceptic lobby group.
The would-be Prime Minister took two £10,000 donations from a business run by tycoon Terence Mordaunt, a distant relation of the MP.
Mr Mordaunt is a trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a think-tank once branded “the UK’s most prominent source of climate-change denial”.