David Cameron is said to find it galling that he is seen as being “too posh” to be in touch with the lives of ordinary voters. A 2009 poll showed that just 38 per cent of people thought he was in touch. David Davis raised heckles last month by saying that Cameron and George Osborne “don’t actually come from backgrounds where they had to scrape for the last penny at the end of the week”.
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