Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:41 pm on 27 February 2018.
Well, I don't think they are conflicting at all, because, of course, the First Minister was speaking about the potential for a free trade deal between the UK as a whole and the USA and, as we've explained on numerous previous occasions, in the sort of customs union that we envisage the UK would conduct parallel negotiations with third countries to those undertaken by the EU 27. Our talks with the US and the EU are currently in abeyance. These will undoubtedly come back on to the agenda in the coming years. It's obviously nonsensical to exclude ourselves from one of the most powerful trading blocks in the world on the basis of some dogmatic political belief.