Yesterday, Darren Millar asked why we put up with the European Parliament holding so much power over our destiny, yet we are objecting to the UK Government capturing those policy responsibilities and powers to exercise on our behalf. The reason we are doing that is that the powers held by the European Parliament, and, in turn, by the European Commission, were negotiated and agreed. Patently, that is not the case with the internal market Bill, which is a land grab by the English Parliament, and it's really distressing that they have completely forgotten the whole concept of subsidiarity, which was a core principle of the European Union. We have left now, we absolutely accept that, but we have to understand that this Bill is, quite simply, going to prevent us doing our duty to protect and enhance the lives of Welsh citizens, who have consented to us doing so on their behalf in both a referendum and subsequent parliamentary elections. And if they don't like what we're doing, they can vote for the fringe parties like UKIP, who want to turn back the tide of history and hand the keys of responsibility for the destiny of Wales back to the UK Parliament. 

So, I am concerned that the areas where we would be prevented from acting in the interests of our people, our land and our environment, include our inability to ban adulterated food, whether its genetically modified, it's grown with hormone-fed beef, chlorinated chicken, or it's been reared off the back of the tearing down of the Amazon, which is required in order to feed them with constant supplies of soya, instead of the way in which we produce our meat, which is grass-fed. So, if we have no trade deal with the European Union, we will be operating under WTO rules, and that means we will be absolutely unable to stop the tide of these sorts of poor environmental standards of agriculture, poor animal welfare standards, which are just designed to maximise profits. It's not only David Attenborough who is pointing out that this spells environmental, climate and species disaster. There are many, many people saying that this is absolutely no way to continue to abuse the resources of this planet.

So, we would presumably, for example, be prevented from strengthening Part L of our housing regulations so that, in future, only decent, quality homes to zero-carbon standards could be built, and that we could prevent anything else being built. And, finally, it would force our Welsh water companies to adhere to the much lower environmental and economic standards of the English water companies, who last year polluted, discharged raw sewage into, English rivers 200,000 times because of poor regulation by the Environment Agency.

We do not need a race to the bottom. This is not about making businesses impossible to operate. We need to ensure that, collectively, we are able to put forward constant improvements to tackle the pollution of our rivers and seas. And we should be able to encourage other Governments of the United Kingdom to follow our lead, as they have done on things like plastic bags. People didn't vote for having their children swimming in sewage, and they do not want to be eating fish polluted with plastic. I agree with Darren Millar that most of Welsh trade is with the rest of the UK. But that's lucky, because it does look increasingly likely that there will be no deal with the European Union, and therefore we will have to fall back on our own resources within the United Kingdom to maintain the living standards and the well-being of our society.

Frankly, I don't believe that Boris Johnson didn't read what he was signing. Or, if he did, he just assumed that this so-called oven-ready deal he was promising everybody—that he'd be able to wriggle out of it afterwards and he'd come up with some other solution along the way, and somebody said, 'Don't worry, just sign it, sort it out.' That is no way to deal with—for getting people to trust you. And I don't trust him with managing the shared prosperity fund for Wales, and I'm not bought off by the crumbs on table that Darren Millar says they're offering.