David Cameron accused of 'sh***ing all over the working class' with plan to demolish 100 'sink' estates

Labour MP Dawn Butler lays into the Prime Minister as Jeremy Corbyn accuses him of 'social cleansing' with latest housing proposals

Dawn Butler the MP for Brent Central resigned from the shadow cabinet alongside Rachael Maskell (Rex/Shutterstock)

David Cameron has been accused of "sh***ing all over the working class" after clashing with Jeremy Corbyn over the Government's plan to demolish 100 "sink" estates.

Labour MP Dawn Butler made the comment on Twitter during Prime Minister's Questions after receiving a text from a friend who described the Prime Minister as looking "like a kid whose [sic] just done a poo"

She was responding to Mr Cameron's announcement to spend £140m on scrapping more than 100 high-rise tower blocks that he claimed was "entrenching poverty in Britain" and to replace them with private properties.

However she was immediately accused of hypocrisy - during the 2009 expenses scandal it was revealed she had charged the taxpayer £2,308 for a whirlpool bath in a bathroom suite. It is not the first time Ms Butler has attacked Mr Cameron with racy language.

In an interview at the start of the year she said she was planning to "kick ass" in 2016 and joked that she would like to give the Prime Minister a "slap".

Mr Corbyn's spokesman said the proposals to demolish high-rise council estates amounted to "social cleansing" after Mr Cameron refused to confirm whether existing tennants will have the right to the same housing when the council estates are rebuilt.

"Everyone who lives in these areas is feeling insecurity and with good reason," Mr Corbyn's spokesman said.

"Jeremy is standing up for millions of working people who can't afford to buy their houses. They recognise that Jeremy is speaking for them, not a Prime Minister who's out of touch."

Mr Cameron went on the attack at Prime Minister's Questions, accusing Mr Corbyn of being a "small 'c' conservative" for opposing plans to replace council estates with new homes.

He said: “Who here is the small 'c' conservative saying to people 'stay stuck in your sink estates' - have nothing better than what Labour gave you after the war...that's the fact of politics today - a party on this side of the house that wants to give people life chances and a Labour opposition that says 'say stuck in poverty'.”

Mr Cameron immediately came under fire for describing high-rise tower blocks as "sink" estates: