I don’t want to detain people on this point, because I think Steffan Lewis set it out very admirably. I almost feel as if I am in an ‘Alice in Wonderland’ moment here, you know, when I hear mature politicians actually refusing to accept the term that everyone else in the world uses, including European Union officials and including the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Actually, Full Fact, which did a laudable service during the election campaign, catching politicians out when they’re economical with the old actualité—they even said, ‘Yes, single market membership does exist. It is this—’. The single market is a binary—you’re either in it or you’re outside of it, and that is the issue. You can choose your own language, if you like. There, we were charitable, in Plaid Cymru, in coming up with this term that nobody else uses, by the way—’participation in the single market’—but what you can’t say is that single market membership doesn’t exist, because the entire rest of the world calls it that.

Let’s get back to the core—[Interruption.] Even Stephen Kinnock uses ‘single market membership’—you want to have a word with him. Let’s get back to the core point of the third paragraph of this motion, which is the voice of Wales. If there are going to be trade deals, who’s going to be listening to us? Of course, we have to contrast our situation with the situation that the Walloon Parliament was in—a member of the comprehensive economic trade agreement between Canada and the European Union. Of course, they were holding it up because of some concerns that they had back in February. What people may not realise is, actually, the same process has been followed in Canada, and it’s only in the last week that CETA has been ratified in Canada, because it had to go to every single province and territory, and Quebec was the last province to support it.

The same principle applies in Australia—the Singapore-Australia free trade agreement, for example, and the provision of mutual recognition of goods between Australia and New Zealand. All of the territories—the states and territories—of Australia had to agree to those agreements, and that’s despite the fact that section 92 of the constitution of Australia refers to ‘trade, commerce and intercourse’ between the states being ‘absolutely free’.

They recognise the importance, in a federal situation, of actually recognising the interests of those devolved state territories, and yet what we get from the UK Government at the moment is the promise of the return of the board of trade and Her Majesty’s trade commissioners—it’s back to the eighteenth century. I was almost wondering whether they’re going to bring back the East India Company as well.

I’m all for the politics of the united front, and this is a front where we have to join forces, because we cannot allow a situation where our legitimate and distinct economic interests are ignored by the centre.