Part of 2. Questions to the Counsel General and Brexit Minister (in respect of his Brexit Minister responsibilities) – in the Senedd at 2:45 pm on 8 May 2019.
I would say that the broader narrative about people not respecting the referendum is part of a very troubling and damaging broader narrative of betrayal. I would just say to the Member, it doesn't reflect well on any of us in this place to be feeding that narrative. We are in a time when the role of politicians is not to stoke that up; it is to recognise what we have failed to recognise and led to the 2016 referendum, which is these judgments are difficult judgments and they have real consequences in the lives of individuals. There are politicians in this place and in Westminster wrestling with how to reconcile the referendum of 2016 with a set of relationships with the European Union that do least damage to the people of Wales and the UK, and I'd encourage him to participate in that debate rather than to seek to score political points.