Interestingly, I seem to recall that our present government seemed to change their minds about this after getting in. Was it this issue, or something else? But I remember wondering how, if no government can bind its successors, they had to support something so wrong as arguing that it would be wrong to pardon them as they couldn't sort out the guilty from the innocent. This is of course a vital issue at this time. Or that it is wrong to apply modern standards to the past. That makes it wrong to criticise the lawful decisions of any past government of anywhere, presumably, like Caligula, or Tamburlaine, or Hitler.

Since we are a nominal democracy, if enough of the people decide that men were executed wrongly, and and should be exonerated, then they are, aren't they? It doesn't need the PM. It doesn't need the Queen.

Penny