1. Debate: Brexit and Prorogation of the UK Parliament

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:56 pm on 5 September 2019.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 3:56, 5 September 2019

Andrew, look, I have to say to you that the attempts that are made by people who advocated Brexit always to say, when major economic closures happen in Wales, that Brexit had nothing to do with it are not credible. It doesn't work in the world in which ordinary people live their lives. I met the most senior people from Tata in Port Talbot when the new blast furnace was reopened. I was there to talk about the success that the firm had had with the help of the Welsh Government in relining the blast furnace. All they wanted to talk to me about was Brexit. All they wanted to do was to tell me about their fears for the future of that company in a time when we don't have access to the single market, when we don't have the things that allow them to trade successfully today. It just doesn't wash to say that these things don't matter when those decisions are made. Of course they do.