Part of 3. Topical Questions – in the Senedd at 3:20 pm on 16 January 2019.
I don't agree with that, Llywydd. I think we will come to the point when that may very well be the case, and if we reach that point, then going back to the people, having a final say on this matter, may have to be the way through the impasse that the House of Commons would find itself in if it wasn't able to do what Lynne Neagle pointed to in the first part of her question, and that is to find a form of Brexit on which the House of Commons can agree. Now, we may well feel here that that is a remote possibility, but the Prime Minister said yesterday—she repeated it in a telephone conversation that I had with her late yesterday evening—that she is to reach out to other parties and other parliamentarians, that she's to involve devolved administrations in those discussions, with a view to finding a different way through this impasse. I think we—if she's in a position to do that after today—have to allow her the few days at her disposal to see if that can be brought about. If there is a deal that she can do that meets the tests set out by my party, that meets the tests set out in 'Securing Wales' Future', there may yet be a deal there to be done. If that is not the case, then I agree, in those circumstances, with what Lynne Neagle said—that the decision will have to go back to the people.