Rejected petition Make it a legal obligation to keep election pledges or rerun election if broken.

Parties need to legally do any and all checks before making each election pledge, and then legally they have to keep those pledges. If the manifesto pledges are subsequently broken unless through entirely unforeseeable circumstances then the election needs to be re-run.

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It is immoral for a party to make pledges, secure votes from them and win elections, and then - as there's no legal requirement to keep any of those promises - they aren't kept. It must be a legal requirement to perform auditable checks on whether they can commit to these pledges before they are made, and then to uphold those pledges if they win the election. Unless there are extraordinary, unavoidable, unforeseen circumstances, then if pledges aren't kept then the election needs to be rerun.

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

Call a general election if a government breaks an election manifesto promise
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/744946

Require an election if 70% of the government manifesto isn’t delivered
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/741176

Make the government legally accountable for delivering its manifesto promises
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/749381

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