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Lying In Parliament Should Be A Criminal Offence

Submitted on Thursday 16th January 2014

Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

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Lying In Parliament Should Be A Criminal Offence

Additional Information

LYING TO PARLIAMENT SHOULD BE MADE A CRIMINAL OFFENCE
Under Parliamentary “convention” A member is not allowed to call another member a Liar. At the same time Ministers Lie to Parliament On A Regular Basis
Accordingly we the undersigned call for the scraping of the aforementioned convention and for Lying in the course of parliamentary proceedings to be made a criminal offence equivalent to perjury

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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

This is a matter for the House not for HM Government

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