A petition to stop US President Donald Trump’s UK state visit has gathered more than a million signatures.
Numbers of signatories have been rising rapidly since a US clampdown on immigration came into effect over the weekend, causing anger worldwide.
PM Theresa May announced the visit on her recent US trip. Downing Street said while it disagreed with the policy it was right to still work with the US.
Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn has urged the PM to postpone the visit.
The petition is now the second-most popular ever on the government’s website. MPs will discuss it on Tuesday.
It states: “Donald Trump should be allowed to enter the UK in his capacity as head of the US Government, but he should not be invited to make an official State Visit because it would cause embarrassment to Her Majesty the Queen.”
State visits are grand occasions requiring an invitation from the Queen, and are distinct from regular visits by heads of state. The Queen usually receives one or two heads of state a year.
Graham Guest, a solicitor from Leeds who began the petition, said he wanted it to “put the spotlight” on Mr Trump.
On Sunday, he told the Press Association news agency: “A state visit legitimises his presidency and he will use the photo opportunities and being seen with the Queen to get re-elected.”
On Friday Mr Trump signed an executive order halting the US refugee programme for 120 days, indefinitely banning all Syrian refugees and suspending the entry of all nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries.
Moves to implement the measure triggered anger and protest across the world.
On Saturday afternoon the petition had just 60 signatures but reached the 100,000 needed to be considered for debate by Parliament just after midday on Sunday. About 30,000 have come from outside the UK.
It is now second only to a petition signed by more than four million people calling for a fresh referendum on whether to leave the European Union.
A 2015 campaign seeking to ban Mr Trump, then a presidential candidate, from entering the UK gained more than 500,000 signatures.
Protests in response to Mr Trump’s executive order are expected to take place after 17:00 in London, Manchester, Bristol, Brighton, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, York, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Swansea.
Buckingham Palace has declined to comment on the row.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is expected to make a statement to the Commons on Monday afternoon.
Meanwhile former Labour leader Ed Miliband tweeted that he and Iraqi-born Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi were applying for an emergency debate on Monday on what he called “President Trump’s Muslim ban”.
The prime minister’s official spokesman said the invitation to Mr Trump had been extended and accepted.
“The UK and US have a strong and close relationship, it’s right we work together…. right that that continues,” he said, adding that the government disagreed with “the whole lot” of provisions set out in Mr Trump’s executive order.
But Shadow Attorney-General Shami Chakrabarti said the government’s position “sounds like appeasement”.
Mr Corbyn, who is supporting the petition, tweeted: “@Theresa_May would be failing the British people if she does not postpone the state visit & condemn Trump’s actions in the clearest terms.”
“@realDonaldTrump should not be welcomed to Britain while he abuses our shared values with shameful #MuslimBan & attacks on refugees & women,” he added.
Alex Salmond, the SNP’s foreign affairs spokesman, said he thought the state visit was “a very bad idea”.
And Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said the visit should not happen while the executive order was in place.
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