More voters would trust a Conservative government under Theresa May than a Labour government under Jeremy Corbyn to negotiate leaving the EU

More people think Brexit is wrong than right for the first time since the referendum, according to a Times poll which shows the Tory lead ahead of the election has shrunk in the past week.

The YouGov poll found that 45 per cent of voters agreed that, with hindsight, Britain was wrong to vote to leave the EU, while 43 per cent said it was right and 12 per cent did not know.

This is the first time that more people have said the referendum came out with the wrong result, and suggests that the issue still divides the country.

Some 85 per cent of people who voted to leave still thought it was the right decision, while 89 per cent of people who voted