The Guardian's Alan Travis and Owen Bowcott have filed a news story about today's events. They report:

The irony that May’s most popular decision of her home secretaryship was taken because of the Human Rights Act, which she has pledged to scrap, was not lost on her critics.

But in a promised overhaul of the extradition laws that accompanied the decision she indicated that future home secretaries would be stripped of the very power that she had used to save the computer hacker.

McKinnon’s mother, Janis Sharp, said that May had been “incredibly brave” to “stand up” to the Americans. She said she was “overwhelmed” after the ‘emotional rollercoaster’ of the 10 year legal battle the family had faced.

McKinnon, from Wood Green, north London, couldn’t speak when he first heard the decision but then cried and hugged her.

“He felt like he was a dead person. He had no job, he didn’t go on holiday...he felt worthless... Thank you, Theresa May, from the bottom of my heart – I always knew you had the strength and courage to do the right thin,” said his mother.