Can I start by perhaps reminding people I think, unfortunately, the UK will be leaving the EU on 29 March 2019 because Theresa May will hang on to power and will undoubtedly take us out, because she's made that abundantly clear? But the question is on what terms we leave, and that's the biggest question for all of us in our political careers, I think, coming ahead.

As Chair of the External Affairs and Additional Legislation Committee I've had the opportunity to actually see the complexities and the complications that we have faced over the last two years and will face in the future, and the potential consequences we must overcome because of these complexities. Can I put, at this point, on record the excellent work done by the Commission staff in always presenting us as Members with information as to the goings on both in Westminster and Europe so that we can have an understanding of some of the issues that are being raised throughout this whole process?

For our communities across Wales, and the whole of the UK, it's vital that we do leave the EU with the very best deal available to us, and, for me, there's no doubt that no deal on 29 March is a disastrous one for everyone. The noises coming from Brussels, unfortunately, over the last couple of days are that diplomats of the EU's 27 are prepared for a statement after next week's Council meeting that will express a view that a no-deal scenario is now a real possibility, particularly as the UK Government has continued to fail to produce a White Paper on its position on the future of the EU, and on any relationships. I hope they're wrong. I really do hope they're wrong on this, and that that statement doesn't happen. The stakes are far too high for everyone to simply walk away into the unknown of WTO rules. This uncertainty could become a reality. Just go and ask your businesses in your local constituencies if you don't believe me—