Ed Miliband has today pledged that a future Labour Government will offer posthumous pardons for gay men convicted under historic indecency laws.

The new legislation will allow the family and friends of deceased men to apply to the Home Office to quash convictions under the historic ‘gross indecency’ law for consensual same-sex relationships.

This law will be known as Turing’s Law in memory of Alan Turing – the Enigma code-breaker – who was convicted of ‘gross indecency’ in 1952 and has subsequently received a posthumous Royal pardon.  

Ed Miliband said:

“What was right for Alan Turing’s family should be right for other families as well.

“The next Labour government will extend the right individuals already have to overturn convictions that society now see as grossly unfair to the relatives of those convicted who have passed away.”