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Make it a criminal offence to mislead the public whilst campaigning.

Submitted on Tuesday 28th June 2016

Rejected on Thursday 14th July 2016

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

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Make it a criminal offence to mislead the public whilst campaigning.

Petition Details

The EU referendum was characterised by misleading and false statements. Despite the UK statistics authority confirming that the statement that £350 million pounds is sent to the EU every week was a lie, the campaigners continued to state it. There must be a way to force retractions.


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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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