Rejected petition UKIP must be allowed to participate in the BBC aired EU referendum debate

The BBC are due to air a debate on the EU Referendum. UKIP, the very party that founded the idea of an EU Referendum are not being included in the debate.

As National Broadcaster this is absolutely unacceptable and shows a bias towards the in campaign. UKIP must be allowed to join the debate.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

The BBC is an independent body governed by a Royal Charter. Under the terms of that Charter, the BBC is operationally and editorially independent of government and there is no provision for the government to intervene in the BBC’s day-to-day operations.

You might like to write to the BBC to make this suggestion.

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 11 May 2016
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.