Hillsborough Law will ‘criminalise lying’ by senior ministers, say campaigners | Politics News
Hillsborough Law will make it a criminal offence for prime ministers and cabinet ministers to deliberately mislead the public β but not backbench MPs. Democracy campaigners say a “historic” measure within the flagship legislation has gone under the radar, which is a move to “criminalise lying” by senior politicians. That is through a new standalone…