Rejected petition Legal accountability for referendum or election campaign statements

The recent Eu referendum has shown that career politicians, their advisors and campaigners use mistruths, misinformation and heavily skewed framing of facts to deceive the public, with no accountability or consequence. This petition seeks to hold all official campaigns to account for their claims.

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Why was this petition rejected?

It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.

We don't know what you mean by accountability. We think you might want a similar action to this petition:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/119416

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Date submitted 29 June 2016
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