Diolch, Lywydd. I’m not quite sure how I can follow that. I move amendment 2 in the name of Rhun ap Iorwerth. Since the vote to leave the European Union on 23 June last year, Plaid Cymru has prioritised the Welsh national interest. It will be of no surprise to anyone—[Interruption.] I’m happy to be a Welsh nationalist in comparison to your British nationalism, thank you very much. It will be of no surprise to anyone in this Chamber that my party continues to support participation in the European single market—something that is possible, either from inside or from outside the European Union. Now, we know that large free trade areas and agreements can come with dangers for societies, but the European single market has worked well for Wales. Participation in it has helped to generate highly skilled and highly paid jobs. Around 200,000 Welsh jobs are linked to that market. And crucially, the European single market is based on high standards, and it’s based on excellence, innovation and protection for the environment. On the one hand, it removes barriers to trade. And on the other, it improves and promotes quality. The European single market has some of the best consumer safety standards in the world. Many people will be familiar with the CE mark introduced by the European Commission to apply to goods throughout the European Economic Area, or EEA. From children’s toys through to the highest-quality manufactured goods, the CE mark means that a product has to meet the highest possible safety and environmental standards.

But the single market isn’t just about household goods. It’s also about household names: Airbus; Bridgend Ford; Siemens at Llanberis; Welsh lamb—90 per cent of our lamb exports; Halen Môn. All of these companies or sectors have either supported the single market or depend on it for their international exports. We’ve heard talk of these sectors having to find alternative markets, but why would we walk away from the biggest market in the world when it’s already on our doorsteps? We in Wales should think very carefully about our consumer rights, our exports, our environment, our workers’ rights as we consider what is being offered as an alternative.

Various Conservatives have outlined an alternative to staying in the single market. I’ve heard them say it will be something like Singapore. Well, I’ve got no issue with Singapore, but importing such a model to the UK would be unacceptable to us. We don’t want to see Wales dragged into an Anglo-American world of privatisation, where we would risk facing the end of social security and the end of the NHS. There would be a new, and probably worse, version of TTIP under the free trade agreements, and with it a downgrading of workers’ rights and protections for our environment. Welsh farmers would have to harmonise agricultural standards with the United States or see the opening up of our markets to more New Zealand lamb. These are prospects that Plaid Cymru will resist at every opportunity.

We also heard the Brexiteers offer a different alternative during the referendum campaign.

‘Absolutely nobody is talking about threatening our place in the single market,’ said Daniel Hannan of Vote Leave.

‘Only a madman would actually leave the market.’

These are not words I would choose, but they are the words of Owen Patterson. And

‘Would it be so bad to be like Norway?’

Have a guess who said that. Nigel Farage. A hard Brexit outside of the single market as well as the EU was not a question that was on the ballot paper. Couple that with the promise to invest hundreds of millions of pounds every week into public services, specifically the NHS, and a real need emerges to hold the ‘leave’ side to account for their promises and for their pledges. I represent a constituency that voted to leave. The Rhondda has lost GP surgeries. Some communities are depopulating and so are suffering from falling rolls, closing schools. Too many are struggling with social problems. Those promises of extra cash really resonated, and there are people who signed up to those pledges present in this Chamber today, and they’re also present in the UK Government.

Plaid Cymru has refused to give the UK Government a blank cheque to trigger article 50, and that's why we tabled our amendment today, as well as our amendment that was tabled last night in the House of Commons. Llywydd, we have a motion before us today that recognises the referendum result and sets out a detailed plan for Wales, and Plaid Cymru will support that motion, even if our amendment falls. The motion is right to point out that the UK Government failed to set out a detailed plan. This is part of our problem.