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Gaining an electoral advantage by deception should be made a criminal offence.

Submitted on Monday 25th November 2024

Rejected on Friday 10th January 2025

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Gaining an electoral advantage by deception should be made a criminal offence.

Petition Details

I want legislation to be enacted that compels elected members to be honest with the electorate.

Additional Information

Democracy is delicate and precious, and for whatever reason, what I hope is a small minority seem to play fast and loose with the truth.


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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.

You may wish to sign the following petitions which call for similar actions:

Amend the Recall of MPs Act 2015 for MPs who have misled voters
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/703329

Impose penalties on MPs for deceit
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/703882

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