6. Plaid Cymru Debate: A confirmatory European Union referendum

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:28 pm on 5 June 2019.

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Photo of Helen Mary Jones Helen Mary Jones Plaid Cymru 5:28, 5 June 2019

I'm grateful to the Member for taking an intervention. I actually have a lot of sympathy with your point about referendums generally. It is very difficult to put complex issues that way. But in the situation that we're in at the moment, we're not in a position where Parliament can resolve this. Parliament has had three years to try and resolve it, and because of the big gaps between the remainers and leavers in the Conservatives, and the remainers and leavers in your own party at Westminster, we can't use a general election, which would be the obvious way to solve this, so there is really no choice, is there?