A Chief Executive who earns more money than the Prime Minister has gone undercover for a TV programme.

Dr Kevan Collins left Town Hall and donned overalls and gloves working on the front line of the deprived East London borough for a week for Undercover Boss on Channel 4.

Collins is running the council at a time of huge budget cuts that may hurt the very services he was clandistantly labouring in. He has to find £55m of savings in three years. This month the Labour council announced the first in series of 'efficiency drives' axing £7.63m in spending.

Staff had no idea their new college was also their boss as he worked as a trainee pest control officer, a market inspector, Meals on Wheels provider, a community law enforcement officer and at the reception of the Housing and Homelessness Service.

The series was filmed earlier this year and the £190,000 a year man says the experience has helped him as he decides where to make cuts.

The same channel caused a storm when it alleged the Council was being 'infiltrated' by powerful elements in the East London Mosque.

You can watch the Undercover Boss Thursday, 22 July, 9pm, Channel 4.