6. Welsh Conservatives Debate: Departure from the European Union

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:14 pm on 29 January 2020.

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Photo of Mark Isherwood Mark Isherwood Conservative 4:14, 29 January 2020

In any negotiation, both sides go up with long wish lists, but a deal has to come out at the end and that's a red line for the UK Government.

They scaremonger about the UK shared prosperity fund, when our UK Conservative manifesto clearly stated that Wales will receive at least the same level of financial support as it currently receives from the EU. The UK Conservative Government also guaranteed that it will match funding for agriculture throughout this UK Parliament and, most importantly, will actually deliver on the Brexit that the people of Wales voted for and continue to support.

They scaremonger about the future of the Erasmus+ scheme funding opportunities for young people to train and study across Europe. However, the UK Government stated that as we enter negotiations with the EU on the future relationship, we want to ensure that UK and European students can continue to benefit from each other's world-leading education systems, and that it is wrong to say that the UK will quit the Erasmus scheme.

The Welsh Labour Government and Plaid Cymru scaremonger that the UK will no longer accept unaccompanied refugee children from Europe after EU withdrawal. However, the UK Government has stated that its policy on child refugees has not changed, and that they will continue to all that they can to enable children to claim asylum and be reunited with their families—[Interruption.] If it's short.