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Charlotte Church has hit back at Michael Gove for accusing her of being out of touch - by claiming he too is a 'millionaire spouting his opinion'.

The singing star spoke out as she joined protesters in Manchester for four days of action against Tory cuts during the party conference.

Yesterday the justice secretary twisted the knife on her and Russell Brand, saying the 'Twitterati, the Guardianistas, the pollsters' got it wrong by saying they were voices of the people.

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But at a press conference today, Charlotte said the justice secretary was trying to shift focus from his own lack of a common touch to her.

She claimed she knows more 'normal people' than him and pointed at his own wealth, which was said to be around £1million in 2010 .

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"I think he is projecting onto me actually what is his own situation," she said.

"He is also a comfortable millionaire who's going around spouting his opinion left, right and centre.

"And yes, he's a democratically elected MP, but I think his idea that I don't know about real people who make this country great is totally ridiculous.

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"I can't imagine that he is in such constant contact with lots of normal people as I am. I just can't imagine his life is like that. At least, it doesn't look like that from the outside.

"So whilst I'm very flattered that I made it onto his radar, I do feel like he is projecting somewhat his own issues onto me."

Charlotte spoke alongside CWU union general secretary Dave Ward and writer Owen Jones after 60,000 people took to the streets against Tory cuts yesterday .

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The campaign will reach its climax tonight with a rally addressed by Jeremy Corbyn at Manchester Cathedral.

Yesterday's march was marred by activists who spat on journalists including Channel 4 News' Michael Crick.

Several journalists and journalists have complained of having 'Tory scum' and 'Tory c***' shouted at them in the street.

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All the panellists condemned the behaviour of those activists, four of whom were arrested.

Charlotte said it was 'fundamentally unhelpful, adding: "I would never call anybody scum."

And she revealed she will write an open letter to Huffington Post reporter Owen Bennett, who was spat at in the face.

"I think I'd quite like whoever got spat in the face, I'm sure it was a horrible experience, I plan to write an open letter on behalf of the majority of people protesting that day to say I'm sorry, that's not what it's about, just to represent the rest of the people who were there who would never act like that."