David Cameron faces fresh humiliation today as his AUNTIE joined a campaign against Tory cuts.
Clare Currie, who lives a stone's throw from the PM's constituency, said cuts to children's centres were "wrong" and plans to join protesters outside a crunch town hall meeting next week.
The 78-year-old's intervention comes after the Mirror revealed the PM's mum Mary has signed a petition against the closures in Oxfordshire, where Mr Cameron has his Witney seat.
Mrs Currie, Mary Cameron's sister, begged her nephew to give councils better funding as she told the Oxford Mail: "The centres are absolutely essential.
"All the research shows they make life for children very much better. It is a false economy to cut them and absolutely wrong."
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Jill Huish, who runs the campaign that the pair backed, said: “It shows how deep austerity is cutting our most vulnerable when even David Cameron ’s mum has had enough.”
Mary, 81, signed a petition railing against Conservative cuts to “essential services”.
Speaking at her cottage in a Berkshire village, Mrs Cameron told the Mirror: “My name is on the petition but I don’t want to discuss this any further.”
She put her name to the battle to save dozens of children’s centres that a Tory-run council is poised to close to save £8 million.
Local authorities in England have had their government funding slashed by 40% since Mr Cameron entered Downing Street in 2010.
Now his mum, a retired magistrate, hopes to stop Tory attacks on public services.
She signed a petition calling on Oxfordshire county council to save 44 children’s centres.
Backed by campaign group 38 Degrees and signed by an estimated 10,000 people online and in person, it says: “Our Children’s Centres are a lifeline to new parents who rely on locally accessible advice and support at a time when it is most needed.
“Cutting these essential services would leave families vulnerable and isolated, and fail an entire generation of children.”
Mr Cameron has also called for the cuts to be halted.
Labour mocked the PM as the “leader of the anti-austerity movement in Oxfordshire” after he said he was “disappointed” at planned cuts to museums, libraries and day centres for the elderly.
But he clashed with Tory Oxfordshire County Council leader Ian Hudspeth, who said the cuts were thanks to funding reductions from the government.
Today town hall chiefs warned they will be forced to cut more essential services to afford extra costs - including George Osborne's living wage.
The Local Government Association made the stark comment as the local government finance settlement confirmed the extent of Tory cuts hitting town halls.
The LGA welcomed an extra £416m announced today to help smooth the transition but said it was still no cure.
Chairman Lord Porter said: "Any extra cost pressures, such as those arising from rising demand or policies such as the National Living Wage, will have to be funded by councils finding savings from elsewhere.
"Many will have to make significant reductions to local services to plug funding gaps and will be asking residents to pay more council tax while possibly offering fewer services in return as a result."