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The EHRC has urged Parliament to weigh-up the "complexities" of Angela Rayner's bill to ensure that free speech "is not subject to disproportionate interference".

There have been many critics of the bill suggesting the legislation could allow people to "sue for hurt feelings".

Co-founder of the Free Speech Union, Lord Young has said "When it was suggested [in the House of Commons] that pubs might have to employ ‘banter bouncers’ as one of the reasonable steps to protect employees, it was met with derisive, dismissive laughter by the government benches as a ludicrous straw man, but I don’t think it is a straw man."

He added "Publicans will have to take legal advice on how to limit their liability."

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