East Surrey MP Sam Gyimah talked in Parliament yesterday until a law to automatically pardon 50,000 men criminalised under anti-gay laws ran out of time.Sam Gyimah, MP for Horley, Oxted and Caterham, was still speaking at 2.30pm when the "whistle" went on a backbench MP's Bill inspired by wartime codebreaker Alan Turing.Under archaic House of Commons rules that means it's been shelved without letting MPs vote.The Justice Minister insisted the government was working on separate pardon...
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