Lord Chancellor Alex Chalk claimed there are 'mixed messages' from the Scottish Government.
A Tory Minister has claimed the Scottish Government is split over how to exonerate victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal.
Around 100 Post Office subpostmasters in Scotland were among those convicted after being wrongly accused of embezzling money. Chalk, Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary in the Tory Government, conceded there is no “constitutional bar” to a law applying UK-wide.
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