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Donald Trump’s spokesman has sensationally suggested British spies may have colluded with Barack Obama to covertly surveil the President before last year’s election.

Sean Spicer, communications director for the US leader, repeated a claim that the secretive Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) were drafted in to avoid any “American fingerprints" on the alleged surveillance

Although the Home Office have refused to comment on the claims one official said called the allegations "totally untrue and quite frankly absurd."

Trump is under increasing pressure to justify his so far unfounded claims, which his opponents says calls the whole integrity of his administration into question.

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Spicer read out the words of Andrew Napolitano, who had appeared on the pro-Trump Fox News Channel on Tuesday.

Quoting Napolitano, in an attempt to back up the President’s allegations, Spicer said: “Three intelligence sources have informed Fox News that President Obama went outside the chain of command.

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“He didn’t use the NSA. He didn’t use the CIA. He didn’t use the FBI, and he didn’t use Department of Justice.

“He used GCHQ. What is that? It’s the initials for the British spying agency.

“They showed simply by having two saying to them the President needs transcripts of conversations involving candidate Trump’s conversations involving President-elect Trump, he’s able to get and there is no American fingerprints on this.”

A GCHQ spokesperson said: “Recent allegations made by media commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano about GCHQ being asked to conduct 'wire tapping' against the then President Elect are nonsense. They are utterly ridiculous and should be ignored.”

It came after Trump took to Twitter in the early hours of March 4 to accuse Mr Obama of tapping his phones in October.

He started his attack writing: "Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found.”

The tweets continued: "Is it legal for a sitting President to be 'wire tapping' a race for president prior to an election?"

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Trump then said it was a 'new low' for the former president, comparing it to 'Nixon/Watergate' and called Obama a 'bad (or sick) guy’.

Mr Obama is said to have greeted the claims with “a deep eye roll”.

His spokesman has denied the former president ordered any surveillance.

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Spicer tried to provide credibility to Trump’s claims today by quoting from a series of articles which discussed surveillance.

Most, however, were articles which detailed how US intelligence agencies were looking into unusual communications between a computer server in Trump Tower and a Russian bank.

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Today the head of the US Senate Intelligence Committee flatly refuted Trump's claims his New York offices were wiretapped by the Obama administration.

In a joint statement today Chairman, Republican Richard Burr, and Vice Chairman, Democrat Mark Warne, said: “Based on the information available to us, we see no indications that Trump Tower was the subject of surveillance by any element of the United States government either before or after Election Day 2016.”

The rebuke came a day after the House Intelligence Committee offered a similar assessment, leaving the White House alone in asserting the surveillance claim.