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A petition signed by more than 1m people calling for Donald Trump to be banned from making a state visit to Britain will be debated by Parliament.

The appeal, created by Graham Guest, did not seek to stop Trump from travelling to the UK, but demanded that any visit not be a state visit.

It stated: "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."

Tens of thousands of people attended protests across the UK on Monday night to oppose the executive order Trump signed last Friday.

Meanwhile, a counter-petition in favour of a state visit for US President Donald Trump has hit 100,000 signatures amid widespread protests over his controversial immigration ban.

The online appeal was launched by Trump supporters after more than a million people signed a petition calling on the UK to cancel Trump's state visit because it would be 'embarrassing' for the Queen .

Even though the counter-petition has less support the government must respond and consider it for a debate in Parliament after it eclipsed 100,000 signatures on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Theresa May , who met with Trump in Washington last week, has stood by the decision to invite Trump to make a state visit - which would include a banquet hosted by the Queen - and faced pressure to condemn the ban.

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The creator of the counter-petition , titled 'Donald Trump should make a State Visit to the United Kingdom', was listed as Alan Augustus Brown.

The counter-petition, containing spelling and grammatical errors, called Trump the "leader of a free world" and urged Britain to honour the invite despite the controversy.

With 105,000 signatures and counting, as of early Tuesday afternoon, it stated: "Donald Trump should be invited to make an official State Visit because he is the leader of a free world and U.K. is a country that supports free speech and does not believe that people that appose our point of view should be gagged." [sic]

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The order suspended refugee admissions for 120 days and banned people from seven Muslim-majority countries - Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen - from entering the US for 90 days.

Amid chaos at airports over the weekend a federal judge granted an emergency stay which ruled that citizens of countries included in the ban cannot be removed from the US.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan is among those who have called on the prime minister to cancel Trump's state visit until the business mogul-turned president lifts the ban.

The Muslim politician plans to tell the top US diplomat in Britain - charge d'affaires Lewis Lukens - that Trump's travel ban is cruel, prejudiced and will hurt US security.