Watch Jeremy Corbyn up the style stakes during visit to Warwick

In reply, rather than address the impact of the cuts that have caused a rift within his own family, Cameron became the school yard bully and attacked Corbyn for the way he dressed and lack of nationalism.

Mr Corbyn, in a speech to launch the party’s national police and crime commissioner election campaign, said: “Stop and search should be used very sparingly only if it can be seen to be effective (in the community)”.

David Cameron is jealous that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn shops in London’s humble Holloway Road while the Tory prime minister must contend with the notoriously expensive Bond Street, Corbyn says.

Responding to the jibe, Mr Corbyn had said: “If we are talking of motherly advice, my late mother would have said, “stand up for the principle of a health service free at the point of use for everybody”, because that’s what she dedicated her life to, as did many of her generation”.

He spat: “Ask my mother?”

“I gotta do my tie up because of the Prime Minister”, he joked, before launching into a humorous tirade.

“‘If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes & shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas & shoddy philosophies’ Einstein #pmqs”, the message said.

Mr Cameron’s assault on Mr Corbyn had roused huge cheers from Tory MPs in the Commons yesterday.

The PM, a multi-millionaire who wear two grand suits, made a decision to mock Jeremy Corbyn’s dress sense at PMQs.

Mary Cameron added her name to a petition against cuts to children’s centres in Oxfordshire earlier this month.

The Labour leader tweeted shortly after PMQs ended, criticising the Prime Minister’s remarks.

“Actually I think there are standards in Parliament”.

The Thatcher quote is: “I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left”.