Of course, I’m old enough to remember the days before the bridge, when we drove across in a coracle, as it seems to me in retrospect now, and I well remember—[Interruption.] I well remember the official opening ceremony of the bridge itself. I can welcome this conversion of my Conservative friends on this issue. It’s only a matter of months since, of course, they were raising all sorts of pettifogging objections to the policy that they now espouse. As the Minister for lifelong learning, from a sedentary position, has perspicaciously and mischievously observed, the Conservative party has now been converted to nationalisation as a principle. I’m not quite so sure that that is something that I would welcome, but nevertheless it just goes to show how fluid politics is today.

This, of course, is just the latest u-turn to be found at the hands of Theresa May, who is ‘Theresa May’ one day, and maybe ‘Theresa May Not’ the next, in the case of the social care changes announced recently. Indeed, the general election that we’re now having is itself a u-turn, because it wasn’t so long ago that she was saying, ‘We can’t possibly have one until 2020—totally unnecessary.’ But now it is. Nevertheless, we welcome the sinner that repenteth, and it is, of course, going to be a very, very good thing for south Wales to remove those tolls and the time delays that are involved in paying them.

As we know, south Wales, and particularly south-west Wales in my region of Mid and West Wales, has some of the poorest parts of western Europe. And with a GVA in Wales of only 75 per cent of the national average—the UK average—clearly something has to be done. The Welsh Government has only limited powers—economic powers—to improve the state of the economy in Wales. Not having the power to vary corporation tax is a significant restriction, obviously, on its power to do good, and the removal of these infrastructure inhibitions upon doing prosperous business in Wales is vitally important to changing the economic background that we’ve lived with all our lives and the depressing nature of the economy in some of the more depressed parts of the country. So, this is a bright gleam in the gloom, and I’m sure that it will be welcomed on all sides. I don’t know where it leaves Russell George, who so effectively advanced the case for this in his speech, whereas a few months ago he was the voice of caution about how it was all going to be paid for and what about the traffic volumes and impact, as Jayne Bryant spoke about so eloquently a moment ago. That’s all now evaporated in the spring sunshine. I give way.