9. United Kingdom Independence Party Debate: The European Union

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:24 pm on 27 March 2019.

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Photo of Darren Millar Darren Millar Conservative 5:24, 27 March 2019

I appreciate that it's an inconvenient truth that your constituency voted to leave the EU but that is the case.

We will also be opposing the flip-flop amendment from the Welsh Government. Jeremy Corbyn, of course, was lukewarm about staying in the EU and has since taken the bizarre position of pledging to deliver Brexit but consistently voting against the only deal that has been on the floor of the House of Commons to deliver it. And, at the same time, of course, he's been stringing along many of his own MPs, who want a clear commitment to start all over again with another referendum. His protégé in this National Assembly, the First Minister, has also been all over the place on Brexit. One minute he's favoured a general election, one minute he's proposed revised deals, but now we're told—and I quote—that he's, 'Very near favouring a second people's vote.' We saw that Owen Smith, the Pontypridd MP, said that he and a lot of other people are considering quitting Labour over its own Brexit shambles. Of course, he was sacked from the Labour frontbench for advocating a second referendum and breaking collective responsibility, unlike two Members of the current Welsh Government's Cabinet, who have also broken collective responsibility—[Interruption.] Yes.