Less than a third of Conservative voters see the party as being pro-Brexit, according to new polling ahead of the local and European elections next month.

Just 29 per cent of those who voted for Theresa May's party in 2017 feel the Conservatives are pro-Brexit with 31 per cent seeing them as anti-Brexit, according to polling from YouGov conducted at the end of April.

These figures will strike fear into the hearts of Tory strategists with the party looking likely to face two damaging elections in the space of four weeks in May.

Local council elections will take place this week with the Tories braced to lose up to a fifth of their councillors, while Nigel Farage's newly minted Brexit Party look set to win the European Parliament elections on 23 May.

A separate poll - also from YouGov - shows that more than half of those who voted Conservative in the 2017 general election intend to vote for Mr Farage's new party in the European elections with just 13 per cent of Leave voters backing Mrs May's party.