Establish Regulation for Political Adverts.

Rejected 18 signatures

What the petition asks

The public are protected against misleading, harmful or offensive advertisements, sales promotions and direct marketing by regulation.

Since 1999 this protection has excluded political adverts. Political campaigns are free to mislead and lie in ads without consequence.

I believe the British public deserve to be protected from being mislead in adverts by political campaigns in the same way they are protected from being misled in advertising from unscrupulous companies.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Create an independent authority to fact-check political campaign materials.

Timeline

25 Jun 2016	Petition opened for signatures
5 Jul 2016	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 18

Status Rejected

Rejected 5 Jul 2016

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