Richard Tice claims two police forces “are investigating ITV and their reporters for possible criminal offences against Reform UK”. The public record doesn’t support that. Both forces have only confirmed they are assessing or reviewing complaints that Reform UK itself made, which is routine triage of any report and not a formal investigation. He also merges the two forces into one story. The electoral allegations sit with Hampshire, while the Met’s matter reportedly doesn’t involve electoral offences at all. The phrase “offences against Reform UK” is odd too, since the canvassing complaint is that ITV paid reporters to campaign for Reform, not against it. Finally, “they will have to answer to the police, courts and Electoral Commission” presents outcomes as settled when nothing has been established and ITV denies wrongdoing. The effect is to turn Reform’s own complaint into the appearance of police action, lending it an authority it hasn’t earned. You cannot trust a word these increasingly desperate chancers say.