Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:40 pm on 27 February 2018.
Diolch, Llywydd. I was encouraged when I heard that the First Minister was leaving the country, in particular because of what he said at the same time, that America was Wales's most important business partner and there are exciting opportunities that lie ahead and he was going to the United States to press the case for developing a free trade agreement between our countries. Unfortunately, the leader of the opposition at Westminster immediately torpedoed those laudable aims by saying that Labour would seek to negotiate a new comprehensive UK-EU customs union, which, as we know from Mr Barnier, would not include any cherry-picking by the UK Government, and, as we'd be out of the EU, of course, we wouldn't have anything more than the right to be consulted. How can these two conflicting positions of the First Minister of Wales and the leader of the opposition at Westminster now be reconciled?