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A petition to stop Donald Trump making a state visit to the UK has attracted 680,000 signatures in just a few hours.

Thousands of people are adding their names to the list every few minutes - meaning it is almost certain to be considered for a parliamentary debate.

It comes after the President signed an Executive Order banning people from seven majority-Muslim countries travelling to the US - even if they have a legal green card.

It passed the 10,000 signature benchmark in a matter of minutes, meaning the Government will be forced to issue an official response.

Now it has reached more than 680,000 names, five times the amount needed for it to be automatically be considered for a debate in Parliament's Westminster Hall.

The petition - which can be found on the Government website here - reads: "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."

Theresa May announced during a visit to the US on Friday that the President had been invited on an official State visit to Britain, and would meet with the Queen.

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Trump is understood to have accepted the invitation, and the trip is planned for later in the year.

This morning, Jeremy Corbyn joined calls for the visit to be cancelled.

He told ITV's Robert Peston: "I think we should make it very clear that we are very upset about it, and it would be totally wrong for him to be coming here while that situation is going on. I think he has to be challenged on this.

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"I’m not happy with him coming here until that ban is lifted, quite honestly. Look at what’s happening with those countries, how many is it going to be? And what’s going to be the long-term effect of this on the rest of the world?"