Member

To take the Government at face value, which I am prepared to do, there is absolutely no intention of undermining free speech in public-facing workplaces in this clause, because it is not about policing informal conversations of members of the public in workplaces that some employees could say are offensive. If I take that at face value, then I ask the Minister to accept Amendment 44, because this would mean that the definition of harassment would not and could not include conversation or speech involving the expression of an opinion—political, moral, religious or on any other social matter.