That new duty comes in on top of a 10% tariff he enacted earlier this month.

The biggest agreed percentage increase of the day came in the smallest authority with Clackmannanshire councillors voting for a 13% rise.

"Five years ago I would have said maybe 20 or 30 years", he said but added "this timeline's come in quite a bit."

His first big break came in 1964 when he appeared on Broadway with Sandy Dennis in the comedy hit “Any Wednesday.”

Thursday's decision by Romanian prosecutors to lift the ban on the Tates leaving the country is believed to have come in the wake of comments from figures in the Trump administration earlier this month.