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Change parliamentary procedure on lying to parliament.

Submitted on Friday 23rd July 2021

Rejected on Thursday 29th July 2021

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Change parliamentary procedure on lying to parliament.

Petition Details

Change parliamentary procedure so that lying to parliament is reason for an MP to be removed from the chamber, rather than the current situation where calling out such lies is reason to be removed from the chamber. MPs should be honourable, and lying is not honourable.

Additional Information

Obviously simply calling someone a liar with no evidence is not appropriate, but where there is clear evidence that someone (even the PM) has lied, it should be valid to call that out and present evidence, and reasonable that the MP accused of lying should be able to defend their position. But if they have lied, they should be removed, even if only for a period of time.


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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.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

Create new body to oversee and sanction MPs for dishonesty: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/575036

Revoke rules against accusing MPs of deliberate falsehoods in House of Commons: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/593112

Make lying in the House of Commons a criminal offence: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/576886

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