Tory policy shock: Infanticide for children of unmarried mothers.

This is a lie. The Tories do not in fact have a policy on infanticide for unmarried mothers. But as the law stands, I can say this as part of an electoral campaign. The Advertising Standards Authority do not cover electoral advertising, and the Electoral Commission, who do have a remit for electoral campaigning, only cover personal attacks, not mendacious attacks on policy or record of opposing parties. So I would not be allowed to publish a poster saying "David Cameron has chlamydia, and caught it from that Edwina Curry", because it is not true. But there is no law against publishing the above poster.

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