Petition · past parliament

Create an independent "Advertising Standards Agency" for political campaigns.

Rejected 14 signatures

What the petition asks

Democracy can only operate effectively when voters are well informed. Both sides in the recent referendum campaign made misleading and untrue statements. We do not permit businesses to make misleading statements in order to gain customers, we should not allow campaigns to do likewise to gain votes
47% of people believed the "£350m" claim made by the Leave campaign - http://goo.gl/OTzLHb - few people will verify such claims using sites such as fullfact.org. Every political campaign broadcast, leaflet, advert and billboard should, in future be independently checked before release. Errors should be corrected, ambiguities and uncertain predictions appropriately caveated. Yes, this will costly and time consuming, but such a cost will be trivial compared with the cost to our democracy.

Why it was rejected

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

Timeline

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

Key facts

Signatures 14
Status Rejected
Rejected 8 Jul 2016

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.