I think it’s important to remind the leader of the Conservatives of one thing: he lost the election. He tried all this before May. He made all these points and, in fact, his party went backwards. Many of us remember he was on tv saying, ‘I will be First Minister’. He was doing it at 10 o’clock on the night of the election. I look at Ken Skates because his people were saying that Ken had lost his seat. He lost the election. He has to understand that, and to use the same old tired arguments over and over and over again—we need to see some new thinking from the Welsh Conservatives. I think the people of Wales would benefit from the Welsh Conservatives working as an active opposition not as a party that continuously rolls out the same old arguments that they continue to lose.

On education, we’re happy with the progress that’s been made with GCSEs, and, with A-levels, we’re seeing great progress there. We’re seeing buildings going up across Wales. I was in the Deeside sixth last week—a brand new building. That wouldn’t have been built if it had been a few miles over the border, not in a month of Sundays, because those programmes were stopped by the UK Government, by his party. We’re proud of that. When it comes to the economy, yes, we’re making up for the 1980s and 1990s that his party created. We’re proud of the fact that unemployment is 4.1 per cent. That would have been unimaginable under the Tories. Can you imagine that—that young people are invested in, that Jobs Growth Wales is probably the most successful scheme of its type in Europe if not around the world? We are happy with that. We know that there is still a challenge for raising GDP, but now we see more and more jobs coming into Wales that are better paid and better skilled. People don’t see Wales as the cheap wage destination that his party promoted in the 1990s. That’s the way Wales was promoted in the 1990s. The people of Wales deserve high-quality jobs, and that’s what we are delivering.

When it comes to the NHS, we don’t have an NHS where doctor strikes are provoked. That’s one thing I can promise the people of Wales we will not do, and we will continue to deliver the best healthcare, making sure that it’s financed and, of course, delivering on a new treatments fund, different to what the party opposite suggested. They dropped it in England, of course—it’s gone; the cancer drugs fund is gone in England, so they’ve missed the boat on that one. What we have in place is something far more comprehensive, and, to my mind, far fairer because it takes into account all people with life-threatening illnesses, not just cancer, and that was hugely important.

Let me just put one thing to the leader of the Welsh Conservatives: my party, Kirsty Williams, Plaid Cymru and UKIP share one thing in common, and that is that we all say that Wales should not lose a penny of European funding as a result of Brexit. UKIP have been saying that. He doesn’t. Will he support the people of Wales and say that Wales should not lose one single penny of funding as a result of Brexit? Is he really the leader of the Welsh Conservatives or London’s representative in the Welsh Conservative party? That’s the issue that he has to answer. Let him stand up for Wales, make the case with his colleagues in Westminster and say as leader of the Welsh Conservatives, ‘I will not tolerate Wales losing out a penny as a result of European exit’, just like every other party in this Chamber and just like every single person in Wales would want to see.