I’m delighted to take part in this debate and to commend Darren Millar for all the work that he has done for many years in promoting this project and, indeed, if I may say so, to Lynne Neagle, whose attractive and intelligent speech this afternoon fully justifies the vote that I gave her for the chairmanship of her committee. [Laughter.]

Of course, youth, for me, is an increasingly distant memory, but they say that you are as young as you feel, and every morning I wake up constantly astonished that I can feel anything at all after the rackety life that I’ve led. [Laughter.] But I was interested to listen to Rhun ap Iorwerth a minute ago talk about his teenage reminiscences. I was, myself, an insufferably precocious and opinionated teenager. Indeed, the whole of my life has been a quest for the rational underpinnings of the prejudices I held then. But the importance of this project cannot be underestimated in my view. It is, frankly, a national disgrace that in the referendum vote just a few months ago, only about 30 per cent of young people between the ages of 18 and 24 turned out to vote. Voter disengagement is one of the great curses of our age, and it gets worse as you look at the demographic of voters.