A petition demanding that the UK’s new sweeping surveillance powers are repealed has garnered more than 100,000 signatures, the level at which Parliament can debate it.

Theresa May’s controversial Investigatory Powers Bill, which have been described as the most extreme snooping laws in a Western democracy, were approved by the House of Lords earlier this month and are set to pass into law in the coming weeks.

They require internet providers to store customers’ web histories for 12 months and make those records available to police, and write computer hacking by spy agencies into law.