Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:17 pm on 24 October 2017.
Well, I can assure the Member that there’ll be no prize that will be given up—I don’t see it as a prize, I see it as fairness and I see it as respect for the referendum results and I see it as a commitment to a co-operative approach as partners within the union. It’s not much, surely, to ask.
In terms of the issue of a deal, I have said that any deal should be subject to a vote, not just in the UK Parliament, but here as well and in the Scottish Parliament and we hope, of course, at some point in the Northern Ireland Assembly. Why? Because there will be devolved areas that will be affected by that. To get the widest possible buy-in for a deal, it makes perfect sense to me to have a vote in each of the four institutions. If there’s no deal, that would be such an abject failure that there would need to be an immediate general election.