Our common European home, so often the place where we fought our civil wars, became a place where we could reach out and not build further walls. It's no coincidence that those border posts also were marked by the images of warfare. Moving beyond those borders and looking at a world through the spectacles of, 'Are you indigenous? Am I indigenous? Is somebody else indigenous?', has led to one of the greatest freedoms that we have all enjoyed.

But freedom of movement is also one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented of those freedoms. It is, of course, the free movement of labour. It is the ability of people to move and to work across 28 different territories. It is a freedom that they will not lose, but we will lose. It is a freedom that has enabled people, both in this Chamber and people we all represent, to have enjoyed the opportunities that our forefathers could only dream of. But it's also a freedom, of course, that has been weaponised in many ways, and we've seen the headlines of the gutter press, of the tabloid press, who have used race as a means to create prejudice, and we've heard that this afternoon in this debate.

Let me say this to the Brexit Party: Wales is a nation that was built by immigrants and on immigration. My community—[Interruption.] No, I'm not going to give way to you. I've had enough of you. Wales is a country that has been built on immigration and by immigrants, and my constituents are the consequences of that immigration, as are most of us in this room, in this Chamber today. Our forefathers moved to this country and made it the country it is, the country that we celebrate, the country that we love, the country that we invest our lives in; built and made by wave after wave of immigrants, and we should welcome that.

It is also one of those areas where the United Kingdom Government has abused people in the most appalling way. The failure of the EU settlement scheme has created more needless distress than almost any other policy area, with the possible exception of universal credit. Like Delyth Jewell, I spoke to those people, I looked in their eyes and I saw the disappointment, the hurt and the distress that had been caused not as an unintended consequence of policy but as the intended consequence of policy, and by the words that were used by UK Government Ministers and the prejudice we've heard in the Chamber this afternoon. That has created distress in our communities amongst the people we seek to represent, and we should be deeply, deeply ashamed of that.

And also, we know that the UK Government has got this policy wrong. We know that the salary cap, the salary threshold, will create difficulties for our NHS, will create difficulties for our public services, and will create difficulties for our economy. But do you know what this policy and this approach will do more than anything else that will affect all of us? It will give the impression that we are a mean-spirited people and a mean-spirited country, a country where the term 'indigenous' is used in political debate. And I'll be absolutely clear to you, the only other time I've heard the word 'indigenous' used by a politician has been with the British National Party and the National Front, where race is used to discriminate.

And we should always, all of us who share the liberal values that have created the society that we have today, fight and fight and fight that prejudice, and fight it again. And we will take on the people who spout that prejudice, and do you know what? We will defeat them. Because this is not a mean-spirited country and not a mean-spirited nation. We are a country that welcomes people into our communities, that welcomes people into our towns and villages, and we are a country that recognises and understands our history. And as a consequence, we will fight prejudice and we will prevail.