{"id":481841,"date":"2026-03-18T08:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T08:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/481841\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T08:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T08:12:13","slug":"law-to-make-it-illegal-to-lie-in-elections-passed-in-senedd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/481841\/","title":{"rendered":"Law to make it illegal to lie in elections passed in Senedd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During the final debate the counsel general Julie James, who introduced the bill, dubbed the legislation &#8220;ground-breaking&#8221; and said it would ensure the next Senedd &#8220;recognises and demonstrates the paramount importance of the accountability of members to those who have placed them here&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Plaid Cymru&#8217;s Adam Price, who has campaigned on this issue for decades said: &#8220;No parliament has required government by law to prohibit deliberate falsehood across the breadth of electoral speech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That is the step Wales takes tonight&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Welsh Liberal Democrats leader Jane Dodds told the Senedd she had previously spoken about a crisis of trust in politics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;This bill is meant to respond to that crisis of trust, it&#8217;s our statement that the Senedd will not tolerate members whose behaviour undermines our institution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite the support there was still some reservations, the Conservatives Paul Davies, said that there was &#8220;still a risk that the bill could unintentionally constrain legitimate debate and political expression.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He stressed it was &#8220;important that any new system is proportionate, workable and capable of delivering the outcomes intended&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the final debate the counsel general Julie James, who introduced the bill, dubbed the legislation &#8220;ground-breaking&#8221; and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-481841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}