A fair-minded person would actually begin by commending the constructive but firm manner of the discussions that the First Minister has had with the UK Government on the EU withdrawal Bill and the machinery of Government changes as well. As a fair-minded person, I will give credit where it’s due. But on the question of the legislative consent motion and also the necessary machinery of Government changes, whether it’s a strengthened Joint Ministerial Committee or a Council of Ministers, can I urge him please not to give out the prize too easily, based on the submissions that both David Rees’s committee, the External Affairs and Additional Legislation Committee, and our committee, the Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee, have had and our joint evidence session, plus our visit last week to the inter-parliamentary forum on EU withdrawal. What we have heard would suggest strongly that he needs to hold very fast and he needs to get the changes both within the machinery of Government and also the LCM that is necessary and not to give up easily on that.

But could I ask him where he stands on the growing cross-party consensus in the UK Government that the final deal, and especially a ‘no deal’, should be put to a vote in the UK Parliament in, actually, a true demonstration of parliamentary sovereignty, or in the Brexiteers’ colloquialism, ‘getting our country back’?