This petition was submitted during the 2015 to 2017 Parliament
Rejected petition Please include the UKIP leadership in the cross party televised debates.
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Should the UKIP leadership be excluded from the televised debates, then we believe that the upcoming televised debates would be unrepresentative of the leave vote and that large sections of the leave vote would be unrepresented.
The calls for, and the subsequent decision to give a referendum was largely driven by the grassroots UKIP voters, members, activists, MP/MEP's and UKIP's leader Nigel Farage.
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.
We can't accept your petition because the UK Government and Parliament aren't responsible for the issue you raise. It would be up to television companies to arrange a debate and to invite people to attend.
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.