The Trading of Goods

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance – in the Senedd at 2:08 pm on 20 June 2018.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 2:08, 20 June 2018

The Member is a purveyor of some of the most pernicious myths about Brexit, it seems to me. I'd like to take him to meet some people who are in the beef industry in Wales to hear what they have to say about the risks posed to their livelihood of the sort of policies that he would pursue, and it is absolutely not the case, Llywydd, and it is one of those Brexiteer myths that are peddled time and again, that, somehow, by leaving the European Union, we move into some rule-free space in which we can do anything we like whenever we like it. That will never be the case. Whatever arrangements we are in, there will be rules that we will have to take, and, because we will no longer be part of the European Union, we will no longer have the negotiating capacity that comes with being part of a major world bloc, the terms on which we will have to strike the sort of deals that he takes will be terms that will be highly disadvantageous to this country.