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Rejected petition: Make it a criminal offence for a politician to lie.

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Make what i have said law and punishable with a custodial sentence and a life time ban from politics

the government employees are civil servants to the public but have seemed to forget this.


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.

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You may wish to sign the following petitions which call for similar actions:

Require MPs proven to mislead public to resign and create 'fact check' committee
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700161

Introduce a duty of candour to all MPs
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700384

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