Liz Saville Roberts presenting her Bill in the House of Commons. The momentum behind regulation to prevent lies in electoral advertising continues.  For it to continue we need your support. We are the only organisation in the UK campaigning for electoral advertising regulation to prevent …

Whoops. In our recent report of local election advertising from the three main parties, we accused the Lib Dems of doctoring a Telegraph headline. They didn’t. The headline they showed in their advertising did appear in the Telegraph and despite best attempts we couldn’t find it at the time of …

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In June 2020, the House of Lords recommended that a code of practice should be developed for election material that ‘restricts fundamentally inaccurate advertising.’ The government response to the recommendation was, Mourinho-style, to ‘park the bus.’ Ev…

At Reform Political Advertising, most of us are advertising people. We’re doing what we’re doing because we don’t like the way that politicians use (or abuse) advertising to make what are frequently highly misleading statements. Election advertising isn’t regulated, which means that politi…

At Reform Political Advertising, we’re a bit nervous of buses. Ever since the big fat £350m lie on the side of a big red bus rolled into Westminster, we’ve been keeping a wary eye out and, sure enough, three turn up at once. There’s the Conservative bus, which likes to pretend it isn’t…

We are delighted that The Green Party of England and Wales has signed up to Reform Political Advertising and Compassion In Politics’ pledge for the elections on May 5th. We welcome their leadership on the issue of misleading electoral advertising and encourage other parties and candidates standing f…

Example of the Electoral Commission ad campaign Reform Political Advertising complained about. The Electoral Commission has withdrawn an advert on the topic of political advertising following our complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).  The Electoral Commission’s advertiseme…

We are not for profit and are run by unpaid volunteers. We rely on donations to continue our work. Please donate to our campaign here. The ludicrous claim has been  launched on the side of the bus by a leading Conservative. However, it’s a digital bus side th…

We are not for profit and are run by unpaid volunteers. We rely on donations to continue our work. Please donate to our campaign here. Reform Political Advertising thanks Kam Balayev, Leader and London Mayor candidate for the Renew Party for agreeing to our election pledge for factual …

We are not for profit and are run by unpaid volunteers. We rely on donations to continue our work. Please donate to our campaign here. Reform Political Advertising welcomes the leadership on the issue of misleading electoral advertising by the 6 candidates for London Mayor that have…

We are not for profit and are run by unpaid volunteers. We rely on donations to continue our work. Please donate to our campaign here. Reform Political Advertising thanks Vanessa Hudson, Leader and London Mayor candidate for the Animal Welfare Party for agreeing to our election…

We are not for profit and are run by unpaid volunteers. We rely on donations to continue our work. Please donate to our campaign here. Reform Political Advertising welcomes Luisa Porritt and the Liberal Democrat’s commitment to the pledge.  There are now 6 candidates so …

We are not for profit and are run by unpaid volunteers. We rely on donations to continue our work. Please donate to our campaign here. Reform Political Advertising welcome the commitment by Rejoin EU Candidate for Mayor of London Richard Hewison in agreeing to their pledge as part of …

We are not for profit and are run by unpaid volunteers. We rely on donations to continue our work. Please donate to our campaign here. Reform Political Advertising welcome the leadership being shown by The Women’s Equality Party in agreeing to their pledge as part of the…

We are not for profit and are run by unpaid volunteers. We rely on donations to continue our work. Please donate to our campaign here. Reform Political Advertising welcomes the commitment that Bob Buxton, Leader of the Yorkshire Party and Candidate for West Yorkshire Mayor, has mad…