First of all, listen, I recognise that we lost seats in the general election, but we still won more seats than the Tories and that means that we do have still a mandate to speak up for the people of Wales. We have our own mandate here in this Chamber and that is our responsibility, and that's why we do have a responsibility to make sure that we are feeding in to these trade negotiations.

I've got to tell you that, actually, we are keen to engage constructively with the United Kingdom and have been engaging constructively with the United Kingdom Government. I've already had a significant number of conversations with the new trade commissioner, Conor Burns, and we were hopeful that the new ministerial body that was going to be set up to look at the trade issues across the different devolved departments—. That was meant to meet just before the general election, so we are looking forward to seeing that again. We are disappointed, however, at the fact that we've been talking about the concordat and what that relationship will look like for months and we'd like things to move on, because we are really short of time now.

So, we of course are keen to make sure that we engage and we will continue to engage with the UK Government. Of course we now accept that Brexit will happen, but also I think we've got to be clear that we believe—just because there's been a general election that doesn't mean that we don't believe that there will be damage as a result of Brexit. Academics have told us that that's going to be the case, economists have told us that that is going to be the case, and the fact is that 60 per cent of our trade in goods is with the EU. So, anything that is going to build barriers between us and the EU is likely to have a negative impact and I don't think it's remiss of us to point that out.

We will be setting up this expert advisory group and I'll give you more information on that next month, but what I can tell you is that we've already carried out some extensive analysis about the key sectors that export in Wales. We have yet to analyse that information, but the key thing for us to do when we do go into these negotiations is, where possible, the strength of our argument will be much greater if we're able to base it on evidence. That's why getting this expert advisory panel, I think, is crucial.

I've not said anywhere that we are asking for a veto in relation to trade. We recognise that the UK Government is the lead partner in relation to trade. But, obviously, when it comes to devolved issues, then we expect to have a major say and we would want to make sure that this Assembly also has an opportunity to feed into that. 

Just finally on the trade envoys, I've been meeting with some of the UK trade envoys just to make sure that they're aware of what the Welsh offer is and that's something that we're planning to do a lot more of in future to make sure that people understand what the Welsh offer is, and some of that will come out in the international report next week.