5. Debate: The General Principles of the Law Derived from the European Union (Wales) Bill

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:24 pm on 13 March 2018.

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Photo of David Melding David Melding Conservative 4:24, 13 March 2018

Presiding Officer, there is no emergency, there is no need for this Bill, and it's the opinion of us on this side of the house that this is, in fact, a bogus Bill. I have to observe that, when the Cabinet Secretary was making his speech on the principle of this Bill, seven members of the Labour group were here in the Chamber, or six apart from him. There's been a vast influx since of one additional Member coming in. Perhaps this is an emergency Bill after all—the evacuation of the Labour group from the Chamber was certainly comprehensive and efficient. But I think this really does show you what's going on here in an attempt, a pale attempt, to ransack—[Interruption.]