TORY ministers are set for “another screeching U-turn” over plans to drop a ban against onshore wind farms, campaigners said today.

Greenpeace UK said the government is “finally beginning to realise the obvious” after Business Secretary Grant Shapps hinted that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak could back down amid a growing Conservative rebellion over the issue.

Despite once branding the structures “white satanic mills,” former PM Boris Johnson is reported to be among 30 Tory MPs backing ex-Cabinet minister Simon Clarke’s pro-wind amendment to the Levelling Up Bill.