I would remind the leader of Plaid Cymru what she’s already agreed to as part of the White Paper. The position is well understood. You cannot be a member of the single market without being a member of the EU. You can have access to the single market without being a member of the EU, as Norway has demonstrated and as the EFTA countries have demonstrated. I don’t rule out membership of EFTA. I don’t rule out membership of the EEA, for that matter either, particularly in the short term. But if you are a member of the single market, it implies you have a say in the rules under which that market operates. The people of the UK have said they don’t want to be part of the EU and, therefore, don’t want to have a say in the way the market operates. That doesn’t mean we can’t have access to the single market.

What’s important for Airbus—and there are two issues for Airbus—first of all, is that they are able to sell in the single market not just without tariff barriers, but non-tariff barriers, or regulatory barriers, as well, and, secondly, work visas. She will know that there are people who travel back and for between Toulouse, Filton and Broughton every day to work, and Airbus fear that those people may need work visas, either for every visit, or perhaps for a period of time in the future, which can’t be good in terms of Broughton’s position vis-à-vis its future. We need to make sure that visas are not required for those workers and, secondly, that there are no tariffs, either in terms of regulation or in terms of money, that obstruct Airbus’s full and unfettered access to the single market that exists at the moment.