Eleanor Laing.

Tory backbencher Eleanor Laing was equally scathing of the “hurtful” Tory leadership, who she said had abandoned “ordinary Conservative voters”. Speaking to BBC Radio 4's World At One, the MP for Epping Forest said, “ordinary Conservative voters don't feel that this government is in tune with them,” adding that Cameron and his Westminster coterie were not “tuning in to the hopes and fears of the vast majority of ordinary people out there in Britain today”. Although avoiding talk of gay marriage, Laing made the pointed remark that “social change should come about by evolution not by diktat from the top of government,” a not too cryptic clue as to where she believes the current wedge between government and Tory voters resides.