Reforms to parliamentary processes announced this month and examined by your editorial (25 July) are welcome, but fail to learn the lessons of recent election campaigns in which political misinformation has become increasingly commonplace.
From the Conservative claim that Labour would increase taxes by £2,000 to Labour’s own speculative estimates that Tory policies would lead to £4,800 mortgage increases, dodgy statistics have stained recent votes, demeaned our political dialogue and degraded public trust. The £350m claim on the side of a bus was simply part of a trend.
