Submitted on Saturday 25th June 2016
Rejected on Tuesday 28th June 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Make it a criminal offence for a politician to knowingly lie during an election.
We have just witnessed a truly shocking campaign by both Remain and Leave during the EU Referendum. The British people deserve a greater duty of care from politicians that statements or facts represented are true. To ensure this, it should be a criminal offence to knowingly mislead the electorate.
Therefore, the people who sign this petition would like a law to be passed where the same duty of care applies to politicians as apply to other professions or general advertisers. Should a politician knowingly make a false statement or, with reasonable diligence, should have known such statement was false then there should be a criminal sanction to prosecute and that the Electoral Commission be responsible for such prosecutions. Politicians, their staff and their parties should all be liable.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/123348
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