Top Conservative Party donor abandons “arrogant” Cameron

David Cameron‘s “arrogant Old Etonian” approach has cost him the support of Tom Cowie, who until now has been one of the Conservative Party’s top donors, giving over £630,000 to the party since 2001.

Tom Cowie, president of Arriva (the bus and train company), will instead donate funds in future to the Prince’s Trust:

“The Tory party seems to be run now by Old Etonians and they don’t seem to understand how other people live. They seem to be very arrogant like I suppose Old Etonians can be.”

More details in The Guardian.

UPDATE: Barcharters Anonymous has a good round-up of recent Tory troubles, including the story about half their activists in West Yorkshire threatening to leave the party.