The Conservatives have picked up voters from the Brexit Party since the election of Boris Johnson but lost support to the Liberal Democrats.

A Times/YouGov poll conducted over the past 24 hours in the wake of Mr Johnson’s election as Conservative leader put the Tories on 25 points, the LibDems on 23 points, Labour on 19 and the Brexit Party on 17.

While the level of support for the Conservatives is unchanged, the polling suggests that Tory voters who defected to the Brexit Party are already returning to the Conservatives under Mr Johnson.

Last week 30 per cent of those who voted Tory in the 2017 election said that they would defect to Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party. In the new poll the figure is