The Conservative party’s disconnection is UKIP’s trump card.

As someone who was made to attend one of the worst state secondary schools in the country as I was within its “catchment area” and my mum couldn’t afford to send me to the private school up the road, I fully applaud what David Davis has said today in his defence of grammar schools. In fact it was one of the two policies, including the issue of the EU, that made me join UKIP in the first place.

It is all very well for David Cameron to pose as some sort of uber-in-touch young moderniser. But the fact is his front bench is chocca full of not just public school boys, but Eton-educated people. Of course there is nothing wrong with being educated at Eton. In some ways I am quite envious of those who got such an opportunity. But a government and front bench should surely be full of people from a range of backgrounds and experiences.

Not so is Cameron’s case, as he has crammed his old friends in powerful posts around him. Perhaps this contributes to how out of touch they are. Opinion polls show that restoring the grammar school system is by far the most popular educational system. Same with leaving the EU and countless other issues where people feel no party represents them.

Just as the Labour party no longer stands up for the working man, there is no point being a working class striver in he Tory party. The Westminster establishment appear to have no interest in such people anymore. Or perhaps they are just so damn disconnected they don’t even know what people want or need anymore. What an indictment that is.