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Make it a criminal offence to desecrate the Union flag.

Submitted on Thursday 28th August 2025

Rejected on Monday 8th September 2025

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Make it a criminal offence to desecrate the Union flag.

Petition Details

We want parliament to pass legislation to punish anyone desecrating or disrespecting the Union flag, our National Flag. We want to see fines of £1000 and prison sentences of 30 days.


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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 this petition which calls for a similar action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/719227

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