The Post-Brexit Economic Forecast

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:45 pm on 13 February 2018.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 1:45, 13 February 2018

We will lose jobs and incomes will decline. I can't understand why the UK Government has been so secretive about these analyses and not shared them more widely with people. It doesn't sound to me like a great deal of transparency, certainly, is exercised by the UK Government in Whitehall. Can I say—? The one thing that we are lacking here is that there are those who say that we would be better off outside the single market and the customs union, but not one scrap of evidence has been produced to support that. Not one scrap of evidence. The reality is it's about time that the Tories moved away from wishful thinking, saying, 'Yeah, it'll all be fine, don't worry about it. Don't worry about the experts. Don't worry about the analyses. Don't worry about the reports; they're all wrong', and came clean with the people of Britain and said, 'Well, actually, when we say we want to leave the single market and the customs union, we were wrong', because everybody else can see that that's exactly what's happening now.