5. 3. Debate: The Implications for Wales of Leaving the European Union

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:29 pm on 4 April 2017.

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Photo of David Melding David Melding Conservative 3:29, 4 April 2017

Well let me just use the language as I choose.

‘And by the way, what we do want London to have are all the obligations to finance the policies that we will now put in place.’ Frankly, if we don’t have functional competences at the levels we need them, which has always been the pro-European argument—now you’re a little Brexiteer in saying, ‘No, no, we’ve got to go micro and get everything back and defend it’. We need to pool these things; we need to work effectively.

But here I do—and I conclude on this, because my time is running out—we do need effective, inter-governmental structures. And it is something that the UK Government is going to have to work very hard on, and sincerely on, and with great vision, and with give and take. Thank you.