<p>Membership of the European Union</p>

Part of 2. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:24 pm on 21 June 2016.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 2:24, 21 June 2016

Not the last three, if I can say that. These people are of a tradition that demands that there should be greater flexibility, as they see it, in the labour market, which means that it’s easier to sack people, casualisation, zero-hours contracts. So, no, I don’t share any kind of faith that they will be there to protect workers’ rights. We know, particularly from the economists who support the ‘leave’ campaign, that they see the future of the UK as one where there are almost no rights for working people, where issues such as health and safety are not regarded with the same concern as they are now, and where environmental regulations are mainly discarded. So, we go back to the days in the 1980s when Britain, environmentally, was heavily degraded. That’s not the future that we want. We want to make sure that we have an environment—a working environment and a physical environment—that people want to enjoy and respect.