Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:51 pm on 17 January 2017.
Diolch, Lywydd. The First Minister is trying to compete with the leader of Plaid Cymru as a sort of Jeremiah of Wales today in relation to Wales's future outside the EU. I’m sorry to hear him say that he is against lower taxes on business, because the Irish republic has very successfully used a lower rate of corporation tax to attract a huge number of firms into Dublin, particularly in the financial services sector. So, it seems to me wholly counter-productive to Wales's interests to rule this out for the future.
Last week, the First Minister said, in relation to the single market:
‘I don’t believe you can have access to the single market and, at the same time, say that you want full control over immigration.’
Well, that's exactly what we do have with the South Korea trade agreement; why isn't that going to be possible for us in Britain?