Two points: first of all, the Wales Bill itself will not be a comprehensive solution to Wales’s constitution. We’ll still have anomalies where this Assembly will make the law in terms of most public order, but the agencies that enforce public order law will not be answerable to the Assembly or the Government. It would be possible, under the current arrangements, for somebody to be arrested in this city for an offence that is not an offence in Wales but is in England. It would be possible for somebody to serve a sentence in England for an offence that is an offence in Wales but not in England. These are the anomalies that are thrown up with the settlement. So, there’s much to do in making that more coherent, although it will not be as coherent as I would have hoped.

The Bill he makes mention of—really, we must see what’s in the so-called great repeal Bill. If all it does—this is the way it’s being presented—if all it does is simply enshrine existing EU law in all jurisdictions and countries of the UK, then I can understand the sense in that, and we will look at the situation afresh to see whether there’s any need to proceed along the lines that he suggested once the detail of that Bill becomes clear. But the principle will be, of course, that no power should be lost to the people of Wales and that any powers that transfer from Brussels in devolved areas come straight here—they pass ‘go’, but unfortunately do not collect money on the way.