I wonder if Alun Davies would have supported a people's vote if the referendum result had gone the other way. But it didn't go the other way. Eighty-five per cent of votes cast in the 2017 UK general election were for parties that committed to abide by the referendum result and implement Brexit in their manifestos. It is therefore more than regrettable that many in this place have devoted all their energies since to promoting worst-case scenarios rather than respecting the people.

UK-EU negotiations have followed a staged process, which was known and understood from the outset, but some choose to misrepresent this as time wasted. Many of the same people have used what was agreed long before the Prime Minister's withdrawal agreement as an excuse for opposing it now. The Irish border issue is important, but the legal text is clear that both parties want to avoid the use of the backstop and that article 50 cannot establish a permanent relationship. The EU themselves have made it very clear that they do not want a post-Brexit UK to remain in extended customs union and single market membership.

However, the real deal negotiated by the Prime Minister and her team, which required agreement with 27 others, is about very much more than this. As the Prime Minister stated, this deal delivers on the result of the referendum, taking back control of our money, borders and laws, while protecting jobs and national security. Although you wouldn't know it from the sensationalist debate about and coverage of the EU withdrawal agreement and political declaration, the Prime Minister's Brexit deal includes a range of safeguards, including agreed arrangements that will let data continue to flow freely; trade arrangements for gas and electricity; strong rules to keep trade fair so that neither the UK nor EU can unfairly subsidise their industries against the other; a comprehensive air transport agreement and comparable access for freight operators, buses and coaches; agreed arrangements so we can continue to take part in EU programmes like Horizon and Erasmus; a co-operation agreement with Euratom, covering all the key areas where we want to collaborate; and continuing visa-free travel to the EU for holidays and business trips. Well, I've heard politicians telling the public, with apparent sincerity, that none of that was in the withdrawal deal currently being considered.

At least Plaid Cymru, as co-authors of the joint January 2017 Welsh Government and Plaid Cymru White Paper, 'Securing Wales' Future', are honest about their intention to, yes, betray the result of the EU referendum, despite Wales voting to leave the EU. In contrast, Labour Ministers and backbenchers—or, most of them—claim to respect the outcome of the referendum while promoting what amounts to Brexit in name only. Although some 60 per cent of UK Labour constituencies voted to leave, including 59 per cent to leave in Wrexham and 56 per cent in Flintshire, the Labour First Minister has repeatedly advocated the plan detailed in the joint Labour-Plaid Cymru White Paper for continued UK membership of the EU customs union and single market. This would mean no control of our borders, our trade and our laws, and a never-ending UK financial contribution to EU coffers. In other words: yes, a total betrayal by a Welsh establishment determined to thwart Brexit, which treats the people with arrogant contempt. I'll take one intervention.