Rishi Sunak and Government asvertising campaign

The following is from 38 Degrees:

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak wants to spend millions of pounds of taxpayers' money on a Government advertising campaign to promote the Conservative Party’s “five priorities”. [1] Civil servants are pushing back that the campaign is “too political”. [2]

Under the rules, campaigns from Government Communication Service paid for by the taxpayer must not be misrepresented as being party political. [3] There is pushback from those within Whitehall because Rishi Sunak’s plans clearly don’t fit within the guidelines. He wants to bolt on messaging about his election priorities to public information campaigns.

A huge petition right now will show Rishi Sunak that we agree with civil servants that taxpayer money should not be spent on adverts to promote him or his party. It could be enough to get him to back down and listen to our concerns.