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Part of 5. Topical Questions – in the Senedd at 3:11 pm on 8 July 2020.

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Photo of Ken Skates Ken Skates Labour 3:11, 8 July 2020

Can I agree entirely with Huw Irranca-Davies and say that his anger and disappointment is shared across Welsh Government? As I said in my answer to the former First Minister Carwyn Jones, the Defender was an iconic piece of British automotive history, and the fact that it was returning, albeit with a different name and different guise, was celebrated by the automotive press, by automotive enthusiasts and particularly by owners of the original Defender. Sadly, we now know that the last truly British Defender has already rolled off the production lines, and that happened many years ago. This will be an entirely different beast with a different name, built outside of Britain, and that is something that I think thousands upon thousands of potential customers of this product will be bitterly disappointed by.