Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:12 pm on 20 November 2018.
Llywydd, governments can't proceed on that basis. Governments have to proceed on the basis that an agreement struck with a government is an agreement that goes on being honoured. That's why the fiscal framework has been successively negotiated with different UK Governments—Labour Governments, Conservative Governments—over 20 years. Those things go on being honoured as governments pass from one to the other, until you reach a point when it is renegotiated by mutual consent. You can't go on as governments always on the basis that you can't trust the person who you've just come to an agreement with.
Let me end, then, Llywydd, if I can, by thanking Jane Hutt and Mick Antoniw for what they both said, emphasising the importance of the inter-governmental agreement, explaining what a reversal of the original clause 11 it demonstrates and saying that we have reached a point where the LDEU Act, vitally important as it was at the moment that it was agreed, its usefulness has now been extracted in full. Now is the moment to repeal it because that is what is in the best interests of Wales.