I would sometimes hope that the leader of Plaid Cymru actually listens to my answer and then adapts the question she asks before she asks it. She was accusing me of being all over the place. Firstly, she said to me, ‘You’ve said you’re not in favour of membership of the EU’, and then she talked about EFTA, which is an entirely different organisation, consisting of three countries: Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland. She herself—her party has already agreed that you can’t be a member of the single market without being a member of the EU. That is what we agreed, if she remembers that. She accuses me of being all over the place. She’s forgotten that. I don’t want to get into a debate that is not needed between two parties that agree on the same thing, namely that we want to make sure that Welsh businesses have full and unfettered access to the single market. If you’re a member of it, you have a say in its rules. You cannot have a say in its rules unless you’re in the EU, and that matter has been resolved. What we need to do is to make sure we get the best deal—full, unfettered access to the single market for Welsh businesses, as she’s already agreed to.

We understand that there is a difference between membership and access, but, as far as Welsh businesses are concerned, we want to make sure that that is an invisible difference, that we look at other models such as the EEA, such as EFTA, particularly in the transitional period—because there isn’t going to be a deal by March 2019. Everybody sensibly understands that. It is a great shame that, instead of contributing to the debate, she forgets what her own party’s already agreed to.