Jeremy Hosking, a multimillionaire who has threatened to launch a breakaway party to deliver Brexit, commissioned the survey

A poll funded by a Brexit-backing multimillionaire has failed to find evidence of widespread support for deselecting Remain-backing Conservative MPs among their constituents.

Jeremy Hosking, a City financier who has threatened to launch a breakaway party to deliver Brexit as swiftly as possible, commissioned a survey of 4,110 voters in 13 constituencies that are home to MPs who voted to remain part of the EU in the 2016 referendum.

These included Broxtowe (Anna Soubry), Loughborough (Nicky Morgan) and Beaconsfield (Dominic Grieve). The poll found that 62 per cent of respondents disagreed with the option that Remain MPs who represented Leave-voting seats should step down, and 61 per cent disagreed that those MPs should face deselection.

The poll also found that 53 per cent would consider