Well, I think people will be very disturbed by the fact that the Government clearly hasn't done its homework, because you are pursuing particular proposals, albeit in consultation form. So, how can you put those forward without knowing what the implications will be? How can you expect people to respond meaningfully to a consultation when, actually, you're not able to tell them what effect, if any, those changes will have on their businesses, on rural communities and farming families the length and breadth of Wales? And it's been said, of course, and you've alluded to this now, that Brexit could lead to cataclysmic effects in terms of agriculture here in Wales, and introducing the changes that you propose to introduce at the same time could well make things worse, but, 'We don't know yet because we haven't done our homework.'

Now, people are telling me that the proposals, particularly in relation to doing away with basic payments to farmers, could do to our rural communities what Margaret Thatcher did to industrial communities in Wales. We've heard about the Highland Clearances in Scotland; well, if we are looking at family farms going out of business, then it will be the upland clearances of Wales. We're standing on the edge of a cliff, Cabinet Secretary, and in taking away basic payments, you're taking away the safety net that Welsh farmers have. And, I have to say, it must be a very lonely place for you at the moment, Cabinet Secretary, because it's only you and Michael Gove who are pursuing this policy. We know that our principal competitors in the European Union will continue to take over 70 per cent of common agricultural policy support as direct payments. The Scottish Government is maintaining basic payments. Northern Ireland will do so as well. Even Labour's shadow DEFRA Secretary, Sue Hayman, has announced that Labour in England would maintain basic farm payments. Are you seriously still going to pursue this coalition between the Welsh Labour Government and the UK Tory Government even when it contradicts your own party policy?