Last year he launched a petition on the No 10 website calling on the government to make a posthumous apology to World War II code-breaker and computer pioneer Alan Turing for his treatment by the authorities for being gay.
On Japan, China Daily says Beijing is dismayed at Tokyo's plan to amend previous official statements about its wartime history, including a landmark 1995 apology for Japan's aggression during World War II.
The premier's remarks were a line-by-line restatement of a landmark 1995 apology issued by then-Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II.