But Nick was also deeply sceptical about the scale of cuts George Osborne wanted to extract from welfare, and he regarded it as indefensible for the government to target those on the lowest incomes rather than those with the greatest wealth. The Lib Dem leader thought that a major weakness of both David Cameron and George Osborne was that they had little sympathy with or understanding of people on very low incomes, and were inclined to write them off politically as ‘not our voters’. (Location 1789)
