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Vicar's daughter Theresa May ’s halo slips when you visit a centre in her wealthy constituency devoted to helping the victims of Conservative policies.

The local Tory MP and Prime Minister hasn’t set foot in the shop in King Street, Maidenhead, which – once disused – has been transformed by volunteers into a vibrant community hub, busy saving families treated harshly by May’s callous system.

I’m told that, three years ago, she did go to the nearby foodbank , ticking a “no publicity” box, presumably to avoid tricky questions.

After all, her Conservatives increased the need for such basic aid due to the austerity of low wages and cuts.

If May does leave her monied Berkshire village of Sonning and pops into the King Street centre she might meet Lorraine, a grafter and mother of twin boys.

She has been told to manage on just £110 a week after a heart attack lost her her housekeeping job then diagnosed anxiety made it near-impossible to find another.

Or Justin, trapped in the insecure world of temporary work.

After three weeks of nights in a transport depot he was forced to wait five weeks for support after he signed back on.

May’s apparent ignorance of this lifeline in her midst seems to betray her lack of interest in those who have fallen on hard times – when often it’s a Tory government she now leads that is largely responsible.

Inspiring mother-of-four Sue Brett is the bustling, beating heart of both the centre and foodbank.

Choosing her words carefully during an election campaign, Sue declined to criticise a local MP with a rock-solid 29,000 majority who is hot favourite to survive as PM.

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“We’ve seen more and more people switch from those who are unemployed needing help, to people who are in work – the JAMs supposed to be ‘just about managing’, who can’t manage at all,” Sue told me.

“And benefit sanctions are the bane of my life when they are so often about silly little things.

“We had one gentleman who was penalised because he would have had to miss a hospital appointment to make the job interview.

“It sometimes seems like common sense has gone out of the window.”

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And Conservative concern also seems in short supply when May has dined at The Fat Duck restaurant, on her patch in Bray, with its £255-a-head menu, but not spent even a minute with desperate folk deserving her assistance.

May rarely adheres to scripted Tory spin and there’s nothing “proud and patriotic”, to borrow her latest soundbite, in turning your back on the dispossessed.

This election is about the country we want Britain to be and May is no good Samaritan.

Squandering £200billion on unusable Trident weapons of mass destruction, but blocking £5.5million to protect the NHS’s redundant computer system from hackers, goes to the heart of Tory incompetence and warped priorities.

Working people in the North or elsewhere tempted by her patronising preaching should study her deeds behind the deceitful words.