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Voters think David Cameron is a Notting Hillybilly toff, one of the Tories’ poshest peers said yesterday.

And Lord Salisbury added that the Conservative leader was perceived as lacking the bottle to make big political decisions.

He rounded on Mr Cameron for being out of touch with the electorate, saying: “I haven’t heard yet a lot of clarity from him. He is nudging towards it a bit but it is a bit like pulling teeth.”

The peer, an ex-defence minister and Tory leader of the Lords, insisted the general election was not in the bag despite the Norwich North by-election result. He said: “It’s not won at all, it’s not a done deal.”

Lord Salisbury said voters still had doubts about the Tory leader, who lives in the trendy Notting Hill area of west London. He added: “Does he believe in anything? Does he have what it takes? I believe he does but there is a lot of scepticism about him as a Notting Hillbilly toff.”

Lord Salisbury’s comments came as Mr Cameron was hit by a revolt over his plans to transfer people’s NHS records to Google.

He said: “Google is the last company I would trust with data belonging to me.

“In the words of the human rights watchdog Privacy International, Google has ‘a history of ignoring privacy concerns. Every corporate announcement has some new practice involving surveillance’.”

Mr Davis said companies trusted with personal data should be “subject to personal judicial and national influence. They should not be beyond control. So when we are handing out these state contracts Google need not apply”.

Mr Davis’s remarks will be seen as a personal attack on Mr Cameron, who has close links to Google.

His adviser Steve Hilton is married to Rachel Whetstone, Google’s head of communications, while the company’s chief executive Eric Schmidt is a Tory adviser.