Plaid Cymru, of course, as I’ve said, exists to divide the British people. The Prime Minister said she wants us to be a truly global Britain, the best friend and neighbour to our European partners, but reaching beyond the borders of Europe too, building relationships with our old friends and new allies alike. Although the Labour-Plaid Cymru White Paper calls for full and unfettered access to the EU single market, EU rules make this impossible after border control is restored to the UK, something in fact your leader noted some months ago before your mood music on this changed.

The Prime Minister has been very clear that she wants a bespoke deal that works for the whole of the UK, embracing the most tariff and barrier-free trade possible with our European neighbours through a new, comprehensive, bold and ambitious free trade agreement. As the farming unions have said, they will need an agricultural framework that prevents unfair competition between devolved administrations, protects funding and is ambitious in reviewing EU-derived legislation that adds unnecessarily to the bureaucratic burden faced by farmers. The UK Government great repeal Bill White Paper states the UK Government will begin intensive discussions with the devolved administrations to identify where common frameworks need to be retained. And Welsh Conservatives support both the UK Government’s plan to introduce United Kingdom shared prosperity fund and the agreement of UK-wide frameworks underpinning issues such as agriculture, environment and fisheries, and futureproofing funding.

We welcome reports from the manufacturers’ organisation EEF that companies are increasingly positive, that demand from Europe is buoyant, and that it’s raised its 2017 and 2018 growth forecast, and from the PMI, that the UK construction sector expanded at its fastest rate in 17 months in May. We also note that 90 per cent of forecast world growth over the next decade is outside the EU. The Prime Minister this week said:

‘as we deliver on the will of the British people, we will forge a new deep and special partnership with Europe…but we will also reach out beyond Europe to strike new trade deals…with old allies and new friends around the world too.’

She said:

‘we have taken the time to develop the plan, to study the detail, to understand the negotiating positions and priorities of those on the other side of the table, to build the relationships and to be absolutely clear in our own minds—and in those of the 27 remaining member states—about the kind of future relationship we seek.’

Now compare that, she said, to the alternative. Jeremy Corbyn says he wants tariff-free access to the EU, but can’t say if he wants to remain a member the single market, subject to the rulings of the European Court of Justice and the European free movement rules. He Can’t say if it means remaining a full member of the customs union, which would deprive us of our ability to strike new trade agreements around the world. These, she said, are the most basic questions that need to be answered.

As for what Jeremy Corbyn would do to the UK, look at the only part of the UK governed by Labour: Wales, with the lowest employment, salaries, wages and prosperity in the UK, and the highest unemployment, child poverty and poverty in Britain. The legacy of Labour in Wales has been social injustice. Only by tackling the deep-rooted economic and social problems, making the tough decisions and genuinely planning for a sustainable future can we genuinely move forward and remedy the deficiencies they’ve created and bequeathed to the people of Wales.