Theresa May paid her election guru’s firm the equivalent of £85,000 a day for the Conservatives Party’s 2017 general election campaign, according to reports.

Mrs May and the Tories reportedly forked out about £4million to Sir Lynton Crosby’s CTF Partners firm for work done in the run up to June 8.

Sir Lynton, nicknamed the Wizard of Oz, returned to the Tories for the 2017 campaign having helped David Cameron, Mrs May’s predecessor as Prime Minister, to win an overall majority in 2015.

This year's election campaign lasted for 47 days which means the Tories spent somewhere in the region of £85,000 a day with the firm.