David Cameron's mum signs petition against Conservative cuts

David Cameron's mother has signed a petition against Conservative cuts.

Mary Cameron, 81, has urged the Conservative-led Oxfordshire County Council to ditch plans to close 44 of the county's children's centres.

"Where children’s centres are needed, they are invaluable,” Mrs Cameron, a retired magistrate, told the Oxford Mail.

The prime minister's aunt, Clare Currie, is also battling to save the centres, telling the newspaper that it would be "absolutely wrong" to shut them.

Anti-austerity campaigners said it proved cuts have gone too far "when even David Cameron’s mum has had enough".

Jill Huish, leader of the Save Oxfordshire’s Children’s Centres campaign, told the Oxford Mail:

The prime minister was accused of hypocrisy back in November for writing to the leader of Oxfordshire County Council Ian Hudspeth criticising "significant cuts to frontline services".

When asked for a reaction to Mrs Cameron's signature on the petition, an Oxfordshire County Council spokesperson told ITV News: "We don't have a response."