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Criminalise deliberately lying to electorate to win votes under false pretences.

Submitted on Saturday 25th June 2016

Rejected on Tuesday 12th July 2016

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

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Criminalise deliberately lying to electorate to win votes under false pretences.

Petition Details

LeaveEU campaign promoted message on a red bus statingĀ£350million would be spent on the NHS following Brexit. Following the result a prominent Brexit politician said this was a mistake.Many false claims have been made in this campaign which mislead people into voting for Brexit on a false promise.

Additional Information

http://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/update/2016-05-11/vote-leave-battle-bus-unveiled/

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/boris-johnsons-brexit-campaign-prints-7943300

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/eu-referendum-result-nigel-farage-nhs-pledge-disowns-350-million-pounds-a7099906.html


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This petition was rejected

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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