Rejected petition Create an independent regulator to ensure truth in political advertising

The UK has just seen one of the most vile political campaigns in recent times. Both sides made claims which were demonstrably false. There are no penalties or incentives which prevent this.

We urge the government to create an independent body to regulate political campaigns.

More details

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has the power to ban or change misleading commercial advertisements.

The Consumer Rights Act 2015 ensures that buyers have certain rights when they enter into a contract.

Politicians are able to mislead and mis-sell to the electorate. There is nothing which protects voters from 'buyer's remorse'. We view this as a gap which needs urgently addressed.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/139800

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

Date submitted 26 June 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.