A posh politician's guide to keeping it real

The Conservative MP Nadine Dorries, spotting a possible weakness and thrusting at it full-tilt, has described David Cameron and George Osborne as "two posh boys who don't know the price of milk". Hot on the heels of pastygate, when the prime minister stumbled over the date, price and whereabouts of his most recent Cornish pasty transaction, isn't it time that Cameron and his team avoided such "frustrations"by swotting up on some of the basics of everyday life? Here, in order to bring them up to speed, we offer our essential, cut-out-and-keep guide to surviving those tricky, keeping-it-real moments. Research by Celia Graham-Dixon