The morning after the 2019 general election, Boris Johnson pledged to people in the North East who had voted Conservative for the first time that he and the party would "repay your trust".

That year was the Brexit election, and the Conservatives ultimately won because they and Mr Johnson were trusted to "get Brexit done" - Jeremy Corbyn was not. Five years on, exclusive polling by YouGov for Sky News finds that since then, the number of people saying they "almost never" trust the British government to place the needs of the nation above the interests of their own party has nearly doubled - from 26% to 49%.

This spiralling level of distrust has been greatest for the bedrock of the Conservative's electoral coalition - those who voted to leave the EU in 2016. The percentage of Leavers saying they "almost never" trust government has leapt by 33 points (from 23% to 56%) since the last election - twice as much as the increase for Remainers.

It is the sort of people who live in places like Grimsby and Cleethorpes, which voted heavily to Leave the EU - by nearly 70% - who have lost most trust in British politics since 2019. Read more:'A worse position': People in Grimsby and Cleethorpes describe post-Brexit views A disconnected politics Our polling reveals a deep loss of public faith in British politics since the last election.

This is all the more remarkable given the "rally" in public trust enjoyed by the government at the height of the pandemic. Nearly three-quarters of voters believe politicians don't care what people like them think - this has risen from 51% to 73% over the past five years.

There has been a similar rise in the number of people who feel politicians in Westminster ignore the issues they care about - up from 50% to 67%. A geography of discontent Despite Mr Johnson's pledge to repay the trust of new Conservative voters in the North, and promises of "levelling up.