Nick Clegg was warned yesterday that voters will judge him on the Con-Dem’s cuts record, despite the Deputy PM’s latest desperate bid to distance himself from the Tories.

After propping up the coalition for more than four years, the the Lib Dem leader called on the Conservatives to “come clean” with voters about the scale of planned cuts.

But his Labour rival for the Sheffield Hallam seat was clear that Mr Clegg’s constituents will “look at what he’s done not what he’s said.”

Oliver Coppard told the Star: “He will do and say anything if he thinks it will repair his reputation.

“But Nick Clegg’s constituents are dismayed by what he has done in government.”

He fired the warning shot after Mr Clegg accused Chancellor George Osborne of trying to “kid British voters” by claiming it is possible to “shrink the state and support public services in the way that everybody wants.”

“I do think the Conservatives now need to come clean because they are not being straightforward with people,” he told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show.

“How many colleges will be closed, how many primary schools will be closed, how many police will be taken off our streets, how many people who are in the working-age poor will be hit by these plans?

“It just doesn’t add up.”

Mr Clegg took aim at the Tories’ plans to cut public spending by another £30 billion after staying away from Parliament when they were revealed in Wednesday’s Autumn Statement.

His most explicit attack on his Con-Dem bedfellows comes after polls showed he is one of dozens of Lib Dem MPs that could lose their seats in May.

Mr Coppard trailed Mr Clegg by just 3 per cent in the latest constituency poll.

And he said: “Nick Clegg knows how unpopular his decisions have been in the local community and that’s borne out by the polling.

“They are dismayed by his relationship with the Tories, which is really damaging for him because Sheffield is still anti-Tory — we haven’t forgotten what the Tories did to us in South Yorkshire.

“So he’s now frantically trying to disassociate himself where possible from David Cameron.”