David Cameron has unveiled his “blue collar Cabinet” as he promoted the son of a milkman, the daughter of a garage-owner and the Tory Party’s “champion of the people” to senior Government roles.

In a bid to put making the Conservatives “the real party for working people” at the centre of the next five years of Government, Mr Cameron promoted Robert Halfon, Sajid Javid, Greg Clark and Priti Patel to senior ministerial roles.

It means that 43 per cent of Cabinet ministers were educated in comprehensive schools – a rise from 21 per cent in Mr Cameron’s first Coalition Cabinet in 2010.

Mr Cameron will on Tuesday address his senior ministerial team for the first time and will tell them that “every decision they take” is about helping “everyone in our country the chance to make the most of their life”.

David Fuller's view

Smart, constructive move and a repost to some of the class war vitriol thrown at the Conservative Party during the campaign.  Watch the Party’s membership increase.