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Dominic Cummings' call for "assorted weirdos" to apply for roles in No 10 has attracted one of the UK's best-known magicians.

Uri Geller, who claims to have psychic powers bestowed on him by aliens, says he has formally applied for a role inside Boris Johnson's administration.

He has eagerly answered the special advisor's shout out for "misfits" and "unusual" and hopes to use his "genuine" powers within the Government.

Mr Cummings, the Prime Minister's most senior aide, had called for people on the "frontiers of the science of prediction" in an ad posted on his blog.

"We want to hire an unusual set of people with different skills and backgrounds to work in Downing Street," he wrote in the post.

Mr Geller, an illusionist and TV personality, penned his credentials in a cover letter sent to No 10, according to the Telegraph.

In it, he claims his entertainment career has been a "perfect mask" for espionage work for the CIA and FBI.

And he reportedly mentioned an incident where he claims to have erased floppy disks being carried to Moscow by KGB agents by repeatedly chanting the word “erase.”

Mr Geller made the same claims he worked as a "psychic spy" in a BBC documentary back in 2013.

The spoon-bending expert is "keen to use his powers to tackle growing tensions in the Middle East", a source close to Mr Geller told the paper.

The source said: "Uri is 100 per cent serious about taking up a role in Government.

“He concedes that his application might be one of the more unusual received by Dominic Cummings, but hopes that he can see the potential value of having Uri on board."

This would not be the first time Mr Geller claims to have used his gifts to meddle in world politics.

Mr Geller has previously said he aided Theresa May in becoming Prime Minister using the power of his mind and later claimed to have tried to stop her pursuing Brexit.

Telling Good Morning Britain in March: "I’ve known Theresa May for over 21 years. I lived in the same village. She visited my home. I took her to my garage. I pointed to this spoon that belonged to Winston Churchill. This was three years before she became Prime Minister.

"I bombard her mind. I said you are going to be the Prime Minister. She laughed and said she didn’t believe. She is [PM]."

Geller, who is currently in Israel, used to live in Sonning, a village within Mrs May's Maidenhead constituency.

His other-wordly fascination in the country's leadership also stretched to him claiming to have used his mind to ensure Jeremy Corbyn would not become Prime Minister.

While Mr Cummings invited candidates to email their applications directly to him, he will not be allowed to circumvent Whitehall's recruitment process.

His post was criticised by employment lawyers and unions who said it could "amount to discrimination".