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One country is trying to outlaw political lying, without curbing free speech

By Stephen Clear, Lecturer in Constitutional and Administrative Law, and Public Procurement, Bangor University
For the past two years, the Welsh parliament – or Senedd – has been grappling with how to tackle deliberate lying by politicians and how to rebuild public trust in democracy.

There is broad agreement across parties in Wales that the current system offers few real consequences for dishonesty. As one Senedd member put…The Conversation


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