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Read our May 2026 Elections Update: The Perfect Storm

8th May 2026
You can read about the significant progress of our campaign and donate here. We’ve done all of this on a shoestring and by relying on unpaid volunteers. However, the reality is that ahead of the Elections Bill we really need your help to achieve our campaign goal of making electoral advertising re…

Listen to our parliamentary event “Preventing Disinformation in UK Elections”

2nd May 2026
You can read about the significant progress of our campaign and donate here. We’ve done all of this on a shoestring and by relying on unpaid volunteers. However, the reality is that ahead of the Elections Bill we really need your help to achieve our campaign goal of making electoral advertising re…

We held our second parliamentary event this week “preventing disinformation in UK elections”. 

26th April 2026
We held our second parliamentary event this week “preventing disinformation in UK elections”.  The panelists that took part in the event: Benedict Pringle (RPA), Baroness Royall, Justin Madders MP (Labour), Hannah Spencer MP (Green Party), Zöe Franklin MP …

Read our evidence for the Representation for the People Bill

12th March 2026
You can read our evidence for the Bill below. REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL REFORM POLITICAL ADVERTISING EVIDENCE TO THE COMMITTEE MARCH 12, 2026 1. Who we are 1.1. Reform Political Advertising (RPA) does what it says on the tin: founded some eight years ago, we are a small …

Reform Political Advertising draft advertising code

10th March 2026
Our draft advertising code is below which we’ve published as evidence for the Representation of the People Bill. “Electoral advertising: our commitment In our advertising we will: Make every reasonable effort not to mislead voters; Ensure that factual claims are accurate according to r…

MPs raise several of our recommendations in the second reading of the Representation of the People Bill

3rd March 2026
You can read about the significant progress of our campaign and donate here. We’ve done all of this on a shoestring and by relying on unpaid volunteers. However, the reality is that to get our recommendations included in the Representation of the People Bill (formerly known as the Elections Bill) …

Restoring Trust In Politics Requires Tackling Domestic Disinformation, Dark Ads and AI

26th February 2026
You can read about the significant progress of our campaign and donate here. We’ve done all of this on a shoestring and by relying on unpaid volunteers. However, the reality is that ahead of the Elections Bill we really need your help to achieve our campaign goal of making electoral advertising re…

“The Misleading Times” is landing on MPs’ desks

10th February 2026
You can read about the significant progress of our campaign and donate here. We’ve done all of this on a shoestring and by relying on unpaid volunteers. However, the reality is that ahead of the Elections Bill we really need your help to achieve our campaign goal of making electoral advertising re…

Reform broke the law. However, the real problem is the law lets them get away with almost the same thing anyway.

8th February 2026
You can read about the significant progress of our campaign and donate here. We’ve done all of this on a shoestring and by relying on unpaid volunteers. However, the reality is that ahead of the Elections Bill we really need your help to achieve our campaign goal of making electoral advertising re…

Reform Political Advertising: 2025 was a landmark year for our campaign.

30th December 2025
You can read about the significant progress of our campaign and donate here. We’ve done all of this on a shoestring and by relying on unpaid volunteers. However, the reality is that ahead of the Elections Bill next year we really need your help to achieve our campaign goal of making electoral adve…

Listen to our House of Commons event “preventing disinformation and misinformation in campaigning”

29th November 2025
You can read about the significant progress of our campaign and donate here. We’ve done all of this on a shoestring and by relying on unpaid volunteers. However, the reality is that ahead of the Elections Bill we really need your help to achieve our campaign goal of making electoral advertising re…

Reform Political Advertising’s recommendations for the Elections Bill

22nd November 2025
You can read about the significant progress of our campaign and donate here. We’ve done all of this on a shoestring and by relying on unpaid volunteers. However, the reality is that ahead of the Elections Bill we really need your help to achieve our campaign goal of making electoral advertising re…

‘AI deception is a threat to democracy. It’s time the law caught up’ 

11th November 2025
This article by Benedict Pringle was first published in Labour List on the 11th November. Last month George Freeman MP woke up to find a video circulating online that appeared to show him defecting from the Tories to Reform UK. It was slickly produced, believable enough to fool casual viewers, a…

A win for political ad transparency in Europe – and Reform Political Advertising. 

7th August 2025
When we launched Reform Political Advertising, we were the first campaign to propose the idea of an independent, public repository for political ads. We made this case to the UK Parliament’s Disinformation & “Fake News” Committee and we were very pleased when our recommendation was includ…

A campaign win for imprints. Now let’s fix electoral advertising content.

18th July 2025
This week’s government announcement on “Restoring Trust in Our Democracy” includes some welcome proposals. Most notably for us, a strengthening of the imprint regime that will require clearer labelling of who is behind political campaign material.  This is a win for our campa…

Near miss for Labour in North Tyneside should be a wake up call

3rd May 2025
As the dust settles from this week’s local and mayoral elections, one thing seems clear: the UK’s political landscape shifted. Labour and the Conservatives lost their grip as voters fragmented towards Reform, the Liberal Democrats, and The Green Party. But beneath the headlines is a more troubli…