That’s not the view of the leader of the Welsh Conservatives, of course. Whether he is ploughing his own furrow on that, to use a term he’ll be familiar with, or whether he is speaking as a kind of proxy for the UK Government, only he knows, but he has said that he thinks this is an opportunity to remove powers from the people of Wales and, indeed, from the Welsh Government—a view that is not shared by the farming unions. He’s been pretty much hoisted by his own petard in that regard.

The one issue, and the farming unions identified this correctly this morning, that we need to get absolutely right is access to the single market. They know full well how much of a disaster it would be if they cannot sell in that market on the same terms. The difficulty is that when it comes to free trade agreements, agriculture is almost always omitted. Countries are very protective of their agriculture. We know that World Trade Organization rules if they were imposed on agriculture would mean a 70 per cent tariff on Welsh lamb going into Europe. Welsh farming cannot withstand that kind of tariff. And so, I take him at his word, but I have to say to him that what is absolutely vital for—. Well, there are two things that are vital for the future of Welsh farming: certainty over subsidies post 2020 and a fair division of the money—not a Barnett share, otherwise we’d be 75 per cent down from where we are now; and, secondly, the ability to sell in Welsh farming’s major market, which is the European Union. So, any kind of barrier, if Welsh farmers face that barrier in terms of selling to Europe, would be—and I choose my word quite deliberately here—disastrous for Welsh farming, which is why full and unfettered access to the single market has to be the defining principle for any UK Government in its negotiations with the EU.