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Actually, the Secretary of State for Justice has the power to grant a royal pardon, and notably exercised it just the other day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C

• pmjoyce 17y ago
  I think tesseract was right. Jack Straw's quote: "... I have recommended to Her Majesty the Queen that he should be granted a free pardon and she has graciously assented." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/8245760.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/8245760.stm