Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance – in the Senedd at 2:02 pm on 20 June 2018.
I know the Labour Party doesn't believe in red lines; it believes in raising white flags on these issues—the white flag of surrender to the EU on all matters of major importance. Labour is an internationalist party, and constantly virtue signalling on the interests of poor countries in other parts of the world for reasons that I, to a great extent, share. The customs union of the European Union is a protectionist racket that disrupts our trade with the rest of the world, holds back the poorest overseas, whilst increasing prices and costs for the poorest at home. That, therefore, makes a nonsense of the statement that the Cabinet Secretary has just said of putting the interests of working people, whether at home or abroad, at the top of the agenda.