5. Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Transport: The Recent Airbus Group Announcement

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:48 pm on 26 June 2018.

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Photo of Llyr Gruffydd Llyr Gruffydd Plaid Cymru 3:48, 26 June 2018

I am, I am, yes.

The NHS was supposed to enjoy a £350 million a week Brexit dividend. Of course, the Centre for European Reform has told us now that the true cost is already £440 million a week, and that's a Brexit deficit, and this is before Airbus, BMW and the others potentially up sticks. Now, I didn't see that on the side of the Brexit bus that was driven around this country. But does the Cabinet Secretary, therefore, sense that with the reality of a hard Brexit now dawning on people, and what the real impact of that hard Brexit would be on people's jobs and people's wages, that there actually is now a shift in public opinion, and that if the referendum was held today, the result actually would be quite different?