I would agree with the First Minister that Wales needs an impact on the Brexit negotiations—it shouldn’t all be left to the Government in Westminster—but sending any of the Europhiles that pack the Welsh Government to represent Wales in the Brexit talks is merely setting the fox to guard the hen house. You wouldn’t send a salesman who had no faith in his product into a negotiation with a key customer; you wouldn’t let a salesman who had spent the previous few months talking down your product and focusing on its weakness to discuss pricing with a key customer; neither would you send a salesman who is convinced that that customer was the only customer in the world.

The Welsh Government has shown time and time again in this Chamber that you have no faith in Wales outside the EU and that you’re totally dependent on the EU to make your laws so that you can run yourselves as a management committee. We don’t need representatives who can sing a song of dependency on the EU in their sleep and who have no belief in their own ability to govern in the interest of the Welsh people or in the entrepreneurial spirit of the Welsh people.

We need people who understand our bargaining power as the fifth biggest economy in the world and one of the EU’s biggest customers. We’re not going to find those people in the Welsh Government.