Rejected petition Advertising Standards Auth to investigate if the Leave Campaign's adverts legal

I'm being told by people I know and by strangers on social media that they feel duped by the Vote Leave advertising campaign prior to the referendum on June 23. Voters made a major electoral decision based on deliberately false information. The legitimacy of the campaign should be investigated.

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

The Advertising Standards Authority is an independent regulator. In any case, political advertising is not covered by the Advertising Codes. If you think that political advertising should be regulated in this way, you could sign this petition:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/154617

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Date submitted 26 June 2016
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