Politics

“We don’t want our food supply undermined by imported food from countries with poorer animal welfare standards, selling our food production down the river by negotiating cheap deals.”

Perhaps unsurprisingly, that number increases to 45 per cent among Leave voters.

“But if they do not, and the talk collapse, then it is their failure and incompetence that will have let the British people down.”

If anything, Tory rebels were only hardened by the PM's call with backbenchers.

The vitriol was blamed on racist behaviour which has become "commonplace in Britain".

“It will be longer before people get tests, they will be infectious for longer without doing anything about it, and the infection will spread more."

The PM tried to drum up support today as he moves to table legislation that could override parts of his lauded deal.

Writing in the Telegraph, Mr Johnson said: “I have to say that we never seriously believed that the EU would be willing to use a Treaty, negotiated in good faith, to blockade one part of the UK."

Liam Fox accused the "metropolitan" media of "talking down" the UK's prospects post-Brexit.