David Cameron has come under fire for showing his true colours in telling Jeremy Corbyn to “do up his tie” rather than discuss issues relating to the ongoing junior doctors crisis and the devastating local impact of welfare cuts.

In an otherwise dry debate in the House of Commons, where the Prime Minister and the Labour leader clashed over welfare and NHS statistics, Cameron was heckled by Labour’s Angela Eagle about his own mother’s opposition to his welfare cuts.

In reply, rather than address the impact of the cuts that have caused a rift within his own family, Cameron became the school yard bully and attacked Corbyn for the way he dressed and lack of nationalism.

He quipped:

“I know what my mother would say. I think she’d look across the dispatch box and she’d say: ‘Put on a proper suit, do up your tie and sing the national anthem’.”

His remarks were met with guffaws and rapturous applause from the Conservatives benches, lasting at least 30 seconds. But they demonstrated to the electorate what the prime minister really thinks of those that don’t share his penchant for expensive suits – that they are unworthy of being in his presence.

Cameron has spent the last decade attempting to soften the image of the Tory party, hugging hoodies and rebranding the “nasty party” as something more caring. With this one occ-the-cuff remark, however, he has shown himself to be exactly the Eton-educated elitist that he has previously tried to hide.