Change Parliamentary rules to make the punishment for lying more severe.

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

At the moment it seems acceptable to lie to the Commons and wrong to call out the lies. This cannot be right.

Change Parliamentary rules so that lying to the Commons is a legally punishable offence, like Perjury, and make it acceptable for an MP to be able to call out the lies.

Why it was rejected

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

We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

Make lying in the House of Commons a criminal offence: Make lying in the House of Commons a criminal offence

Create new body to oversee and sanction MPs for dishonesty: Create new body to oversee and sanction MPs for dishonesty

Timeline

23 Jul 2021	Petition opened for signatures
28 Jul 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 28 Jul 2021

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