Royale Prerogative

The legendary injustice of Shrewsbury nears rectification at long, long last. But a good many others still remain unaddressed, although Hillsborough is wining its way to a satisfactory conclusion, necessarily including the closure of The Sun years before the next General Election.

Is there really is to be legislation annulling the convictions of those men whose homosexual acts would not now be criminal offences, very much the base if this Government and of the party with which David Cameron has simply (and, it must be said, successfully) replaced his previous one of the same name?

If so, then Labour must undertake to support that legislation, or at least not to join whatever remnant on the Conservative benches might still be minded to oppose it, only if it also annulled all convictions and other adverse court decisions arising out Clay Cross, out of Shrewsbury, out of Wapping, and at the very least out of Orgreave, but preferably out of the entire Miners' Strike.