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Tice admitted there would need to be "a learning process" and it would be "ridiculous" to say there would be no mistakes, but that Reform councillors would be "honest where we get things wrong".

It’s a film in which the mythic crashes into the ridiculous, the intersection where its star Nicolas Cage has also staked his career.

He said others had been rejected "because they just said things that were just ridiculous, outrageous, embarrassing".

"We had proved that women were equal to men in magic. It looked ridiculous that they were offended by what we did and that we were thrown out of a magic club for deception."

But she described Musk's goal to slash a third of government spending as "ridiculous", since so much of the budget was mandatory, including popular programmes like Social Security and Medicare.