Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:57 pm on 14 September 2016.
Well, I think the First Minister made it clear yesterday, Dirprwy Lywydd, that in the run-up to the referendum the Welsh Government unambiguously put in front of the Welsh people our belief that Wales’s future was best secured within Europe, and the terms of trade in Europe are that you have free movement of goods, services and people. Those terms have changed. The vote on 23 June means that we cannot simply go on saying today what we said then. And what the First Minister said yesterday is that we all have, in a democratic sense, a responsibility to put our own views and our own beliefs about what is best for Wales’s future—and there’s no reason why any of us should change our minds about that—but we have to factor into that the message that we had from people in Wales who took a different view to that of many people in this Chamber.