8. Brexit Party Debate: Leaving the European Union

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:13 pm on 19 June 2019.

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Photo of Helen Mary Jones Helen Mary Jones Plaid Cymru 6:13, 19 June 2019

I'm grateful to the Member. I would put it to him that the reason why we haven't left the EU is because his Government singularly failed to have conversations with other Governments in the UK, to have conversations with other parties that might have led to some sort of compromise that those of us who did not want the result of that referendum but were prepared to accept it in the first place, but we were never offered that opportunity, as other parties, to participate. Those conversations only happened at the last minute. His party's got to take responsibility for that, and I would put to him that the young people who came of age in the last three years now have got a right to have a say in their own future because his party couldn't get their act together.