Introduce a fact check procedure in the parliamentary process

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Parliamentary privilege means that our politicians can say what they want in parliament. They can lie with impunity, the only challenges to the truth can come from the opposition, or interventions from the speaker. I want Hansard to include fact checking in its records within 24hr of a debate

The electorate need to have faith in its politicians. There is anecdotal evidence of some MP’s purposely telling mistruths in parliament. There have also been cases where some MP’s have called out these mistruths only to be reprimanded by the speaker. We need truth. We need honesty. We do not need blatant lies recorded in Hansard. In the 21st century it should be possible to fact check debate and make a comment in the records that a lie has been told.

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.

We understand that you want a new system to be introduced to fact check statements made in Parliament, but we're not sure if you want any statement of fact made in Parliament to be fact checked, or only statements where the accuracy of a statement has been challenged, or something else.

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Timeline

9 Dec 2021	Petition opened for signatures
15 Dec 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 15 Dec 2021

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