Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:59 pm on 17 September 2019.
There are 44 days now, of course, until Boris Johnson tries to force through a ‘no deal’ Brexit. Now, our clear preference, to prevent this from happening, would be to hold a people’s vote before an election, but if we have a general election instead, it will become the people’s vote by proxy, with a Tory 'no deal' on the ballot paper. Now, if this does happen, then it seems vitally important to me that there is a clear 'remain' option on the ballot paper too. Now, your Brexit Minister, the Counsel General, said in July that the Labour Party
'should be advocating remain in that manifesto rather than a referendum' and seeking a mandate to revoke on that basis.
You didn't answer whether you disagreed with Vaughan Gething, but do you disagree with Jeremy Miles?