Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:24 pm on 4 July 2017.
Thanks for giving way. I suppose you shouldn’t be surprised that a Conservative would appear slightly conservative. I wouldn’t have said that I was talking about an argument of inertia; I would have preferred the word ‘caution’. I’m not going to put words into the Cabinet Secretary’s mouth, but in terms of that maxim, ‘Not having change for change’s sake’, I think that applies particularly at a transitional phase. I think we would all agree that, when you are testing machinery and bringing in a new system like this, we should be very mindful that there’s a very robust and reasoned and clear and transparent rationale behind, certainly, the introduction of those initial new taxes. That was my point.