Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:47 pm on 16 July 2019.
Well, Llywydd, the Member has no idea at all of the complexities that lie behind this case. He grabs at a headline and he makes an allegation on the floor of the Assembly, which, if he had bothered to master the detail of what lies behind this case, he simply would not make. The Welsh Government is having to defend actions in courts across the world by an individual who is determined to pursue not simply the Welsh Government, but individual Welsh citizens in what I regard as the most vexatious way. We will not allow that to happen. I regret the costs, of course I do, but we are defending a really important principle and we are defending Welsh citizens here as well. If he had grasped the detail of the case, he would not have said what he has said here this afternoon.