Vote Tory and get a wind turbine on 10 Downing St

LONDON, Oct 30 (Reuters) Britain's opposition Conservative leader said he would put a wind turbine and solar panels on the roof of the Prime Minister's official residence, 10 Downing Street, if he won the next election.

''If they'd let me, yes'', David Cameron said yesterday when asked by an interviewer whether he would be prepared to install the energy saving devices.

''I'm doing it on my house in north Kensington, I think they (the solar panels) are going on quite soon,'' he told BBC television.

Cameron, 40, who became the party's fifth leader in nine years last December, has been pushing environmental policies up the Conservative's political agenda.

His comments came just before a government report is due to be published today which will warn that ignoring climate change could lead to economic upheaval on the scale of the 1930s Depression.

A spokesman at Number 10 said he was not aware of any moves by the current government to install energy saving devices on the historic building which has been the home of British prime ministers for over 200 years.

While the Conservatives currently lead in opinion polls, parliamentary elections do not need to be held until 2010.

Reuters SAM DB0844