A Senedd member shared her own experience of sexual harassment in the workplace as she urged ministers to accelerate action to stamp out the blight on society.

Labour’s Hannah Blythyn said much of the evidence and experience of women makes clear that no workplace is immune from sexual harassment.

Ms Blythyn recalled attending her first big conference as a young and enthusiastic activist, telling the Senedd: “I was introduced to somebody who was then very senior in the trade union movement: they looked me up and down and said ‘oh, if I was 20 years younger’.

“At the time, I was so fresh to the scene that I didn’t know who they were so I replied with ‘if you were 20 years younger, you........

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