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Sources told the Post that Lebryk pushed back on attempts by Musk surrogates to access the nation’s system for doling out paychecks, Social Security and Medicare benefits, tax refunds and federal contracts.

The government has also pledged the UK will not rejoin the customs union - an agreement between EU countries not to charge taxes called tariffs on things coming from outside the bloc.

The outage is occurring on what is pay day for many people in the UK, and the deadline for self-assessment tax returns.

She argued the government were "killing farmers in our country" through the introduction of "the family farm tax, the family business tax, the rise in national insurance,".

She has vowed a new runway at Heathrow, visas for those with AI and life science skills and said she would ease the non-dom ban to allow a more generous phase out of tax benefits.