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A bid to get Jeremy Hunt sacked has gained more than 100,000 signatures - in the first DAY of the government's new petitions website.

The Health Secretary is accused of having 'alienated the entire workforce of the NHS' in the furious missive by doctor Ash Sadighi .

He set up the petition yesterday and at 5pm today it surged over the threshold, meaning it'll be the first to be debated by a new committee of MPs.

If it's deemed important enough it could be sent up for debate in the full House of Commons - and signatures are continuing to roll in.

The petition asks MPs to debate a vote of no confidence in Mr Hunt, who's angered thousands of medics with his plans for a 7-day NHS.

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It declares: "Jeremy Hunt has alienated the entire workforce of the NHS by threatening to impose a harsh contract and conditions on first consultants and soon the rest of the NHS staff."

Online profiles say a Dr Sadighi was born in Iran and has worked at the Bristol Royal Infirmary - but a Twitter account of a doctor with the same name has recently been deleted.

The campaign is by the most popular of the 36 launched since the petition.parliament.uk website opened for business yesterday.

Its aim is to provide a cleaner design and direct all public campaigns to central government, instead of individual departments under the old system.

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Labour MP Helen Jones will lead the committee and will have to bat off allegations that public campaigns weren't debated enough in the last Parliament.

There are also questions over whether petitions on non-government websites, like 38degrees or change.org, will have to be discussed.

Petitions with more than 100,000 signatures will be debated by cross-party MPs before the 'most pressing' ones go before the whole House of Commons.

The second most popular at the time of writing is calling for a National Day to celebrate the UK (2,988) followed by a new electoral reform vote (1,143).

There are also calls to scrap the TV licence (10 signatures), force a new general election (7) and force hotel websites to put photos of disabled toilets online (6).