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END THE LIES - create independent body to check veracity of statements from MPs.

Submitted on Friday 14th June 2019

Rejected on Friday 12th July 2019

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)

Petition Action

END THE LIES - create independent body to check veracity of statements from MPs.

Petition Details

Politicians regularly make false statements but are never held to account.

If a politician’s statement is found to be factually wrong, they should be made to publicly retract.

If a politician is found to be knowingly making false statements, this should be a criminal offence.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

Petitions need to call on the UK Government or Parliament to take a specific action.

We understand that you'd like to create an independent body, but we're not sure exactly what you'd like this body to do. There is already an independent Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards whose job is to oversee the Register of Members' Financial Interests and the Code of Conduct for MPs. You can find out more about the Code of Conduct here:

publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmcode/1474/1474.pdf

There's already a petition calling for it to be a criminal offence for an MP deliberately to mislead the public. You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition:

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/239850

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