Davis: David Cameron surrounded by the 'well-off'

David Cameron is head of an inner circle, including George Osborne, his Chancellor, that is predominantly “well-off” and risks becoming out of touch with a large part of the country, David Davis said to The Telegraph on Sunday night.

The veteran right wing MP and former shadow home secretary said Downing Street lacked the “antennae” to understand that people in the South East, on £40,000 facing child benefit cuts, were not “well-off”.

Mr Davis, who is from a council estate background, made the criticisms in the wake of the departure from No10 of Andy Coulson, Mr Cameron’s head of communications.

He said that no matter how much Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne appear to care about the poor and social issues their backgrounds remain a problem.

Read the whole thing - important for inner Conservative Party divisions and for Prime Ministerial style.