Create a law of Perverting the Course of Democracy.

Rejected 11 signatures

What the petition asks

The mess we are currently in after the Europe Referendum is caused by the lack of integrity of the information given to base our decision on. Campaigners lied, exaggerated and misled us and an important and consequential decision lacked dependability. The law must be used to prevent a recurrence.

Campaigners, politicians and civil servants - on both sides - variously lied, exaggerated and misrepresented facts, causing the referendum result to lack integrity. We need a law like Perverting the Course of Justice to ensure electoral decisions are not based on lies or deliberately misrepresented facts and that opinions and speculation should be presented as such and not fact. It happened in the Europe and Scottish referendums and without legislation it'll happen again.

Why it was rejected

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Make it a criminal offence for MPs to deliberately mislead the general public.

Timeline

27 Mar 2019	Petition opened for signatures
10 Apr 2019	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 11

Status Rejected

Rejected 10 Apr 2019

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