“Mr Speaker, I’m all in favour of free speech but I don’t see why colleagues on either side of the House should be subjected to intemperate spam.

“Efforts to try to have these deleted have failed. I wonder if you’d be kind enough to intercede with the Digital Services Department to see if they may be blocked.”

In one of the spam emails, Trump pledges to personally match every dollar donated in a 48 hour period, making it the “most successful introductory fundraising email in modern political history”.