Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:00 pm on 21 March 2017.
Well, at the heart of the problem, as we leave the EU, is parliamentary sovereignty and the idea that all power comes from one place in Westminster, which has the ability to do whatever it wants. I don’t think that’s the right approach. I think there are several centres of democratic accountability, of which this Assembly is one. For me, the UK has to move more towards a system of shared sovereignty. It works in Canada. It doesn’t create instability. Canada is one of the most prosperous and secure countries in the world, but we have to get away from this idea that, somehow, everything is subordinate to Westminster and the UK Parliament in Westminster. That is not the model I believe—. It may have worked in the nineteenth century, but it’s not the model that’s going to work in this century.