I do welcome the opportunity to stand here today and address the debate. Sometimes, when a batsman is sent out to bat, he looks around the pitch, just to make sure he’s got all the fielders in view, and then he makes sure that none of the googlies get him caught on the wrong side. Ultimately, I hope to be able to, obviously, make sense of the deal that was put forward yesterday in the context of Wales but, importantly, in the context of the First Minister. Because I do remember this time last year, when he was in a minority situation, and obviously he was carving up deals with the Lib Dems, and obviously Plaid Cymru, and there was that memorable photograph of him using his handkerchief to wipe his eyes, almost wiping the tears away when the Chamber did come together on the vote for putting him in as First Minister. And no doubt, the deal that Kirsty Williams extracted from the First Minister was far greater because of that vote. Yet, time and time again, we have tried to elicit what that deal has meant, what that deal means and exactly what arrangements govern that deal, and to date, we have nothing. Fourteen months on, we have absolutely nothing.

We witnessed, with the concordat that was launched with Plaid Cymru about the support around budgets, that, ultimately, they aren’t consulted on anything, because we saw it in FMQs last week when it came to the European and single market arrangements. There was no agreement between the two parties, and today in the legislative statement, the reaction from Plaid Cymru was that they still hadn’t been consulted. So, we’re in a situation where there is a minority Government in Westminster after the general election. We all understand that. We all understand that, but the hypocrisy that’s coming from the Labour First Minister in particular, instead of being a First Minister, is just making him a very expensive political pundit—most probably the most expensive political pundit in Wales, I would suggest—because instead of offering solutions for Wales’s issues, he seems to want to comment on everything that isn’t within his control. And the real issue here is what—[Interruption.] The real issue here is that the country—[Interruption.] The country—