‘Toffs party’ warning to Cameron

DAVID Cameron’s former Tory leadership rival has warned that the Prime Minister needs to “get a grip” on the problem of appearing to be out of touch before it gets out of control.

David Davis has warned that the appearance of looking over privileged could be as damaging as sleaze was to John Major’s government in the 1990s.

A recent ComRes poll also suggested that two out of three people think the Tories are the “party of the rich” after cutting the top rate of income tax for those who earn £150,000 or more from 50p to 45p.

Mr Davis said: “With so much austerity, so much pressure, a lot of voters feel that they have been sort of pushed off the escalator and the effect of that is they start to resent those who they think are still on the escalator, or possibly even at the top of the escalator.

“That works worse against Tory politicians than it does against any others partly because they think we are better off, they think we are toffs. The truth of the matter is they look at the front-bench, they see them all very well dressed, well turned out, well fed and perhaps feel that they are in a different world to them.”