<p>Wales’s Relationship with the European Union</p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:09 pm on 17 January 2017.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 2:09, 17 January 2017

Well, I did note what she said. I welcomed what she said. In fact, she said that not only would rights be protected but extended in the future, which I didn’t expect but is something I welcome. This was undermined, of course, by the leader of the Welsh Conservatives this afternoon who shot a very large bullet through that argument. I hope this is a sign she’s prepared to face down the rabid right in her own party and to fulfil the promises that she made today, because we know there are some in the Conservative Party who take the view that the best way forward is to make the UK a model of deregulation, along the lines of some countries in the world where there are no workers’ rights, where people live in fear of their job security and whose quality of life is far lower than that than even exists in the UK at the moment.