The Government has urged the nation to ‘Pick for Britain’ this summer amid a shortage of fruit and veg pickers.
But just minutes after Environment Secretary George Eustice's impassioned pleas to join the nation's agricultural frontline, the website to sign up crashed.
The Environment Secretary said that Britain needed people to help pick fruits and vegetables this summer.
He stressed that normally workers from countries like Romania and Bulgaria come to help the harvest,
But only around a third of them are here, he said.
And so the announced that the government is encouraging Brits to take these jobs.
He said people who are furloughed may want to supplement their income with a second job.
“We will need to rely on British workers to lend a hand to bring that harvest home”, he added.
Mr Eustice told the press conference that there had been a further 545 UK deaths, taking the total to 35,341
It came as Downing Street said that no care home should be forced to take back recovering coronavirus patients if they can't cope.
It comes after criticism that coronavirus outbreaks in care homes have been exacerbated by patients being discharged into their care from hospitals without being tested to see if they were still infected with the virus.
Number 10 said that rime Minister Boris Johnson is "hugely grateful for the hard work and expertise of the UK's world-leading scientists".
Downing Street also refused to answer who made the decision to stop community track and trace measures in March.
The PM's official spokesman did not specify, when asked, who took the decision, but said: "Scientists advise, ministers take decisions. That's how government works."
Earlier Chancellor Rishi Sunal warned that Britain is facing a "severe recession the likes of which we haven't seen".
He also warned that despite earlier optimism there was unlikely to be an "immediate bounce back" as the lockdown is lifted.
He said: "I certainly won't be able to protect every job and every business, we're already seeing in the data there will be more hardship to come.
"Lockdown is having a significant impact on our economy and we are likely to face a sever recession the likes of which we haven't seen.
"Of could that will have an impact on employment."
Mr Sunak said the length and depth of that recession depend on how much longer the UK is in lockdown for.
He said: "The question that occupies my mind and long term is more relevant is to what degree of long term scarring is there on the economy as the result of this recession?"
