I did think that the premise of today’s debate—. It seems to me, the Tories don’t actually want a debate at all; they’ve called for a debate, but what they don’t want is a debate. And, I would’ve thought—perhaps naively—that politicians, regardless of colour, would be eager to have a national conversation about the fundamental issues of how we raise and how we spend taxes. The fact that this is new territory for us as a country, after nearly 800 years, and as an institution, should mean being open to innovative, ambitious and, yes, controversial ideas. And the tourism levy falls squarely within those criteria.

It’s also worth repeating that nothing has yet been decided. Rather, this is a debate about whether or not we should debate those issues. The tourism tax—and I will remind the Tories again—is but one of four shortlisted proposals that were whittled down from hundreds of suggestions submitted by various quarters of Welsh society. So, that’s where the ideas have come from. They’ve come from Welsh society—