andy burnham men convicted for being gay should get automatic pardons /

Labour leadership contender’s proposal would mean up to 50000 convictions for acts that would be not be illegal nowadays could be quashedAn automatic legal pardon should be given to all men convicted under historical homosexuality laws without the need for families or individuals to apply to the government,the Labour leadership contender Andy Burnham has proposed. His pledge, following consultation with Sir Keir Starmer, and the former director of public prosecutions and current Labour MP,means it would be possible to quash up to 50000 convictions for acts that would be not be illegal nowadays.Burnham, who currently shares roughly the same number of constituency nominations as Jeremy Corbyn, and said he will press prime minister David Cameron to make a relatively simple change to the law,but if he does not attain so, it would form allotment of the first legislative programme of a Burnham-led government. The move comes two years after the royal pardon granted to moment world war codebreaker Alan Turing. Continue reading...[img_100] , or

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