Questions Without Notice from the Party Leaders

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:55 pm on 20 October 2020.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 1:55, 20 October 2020

Llywydd, of course I congratulate the leader of the New Zealand Labour Party on her fantastic victory in their general election, and I very much look forward to the day when the present Prime Minister is no longer in office. Does that amount to a belief that Wales's future is better off being ripped out of the United Kingdom? I don't think it does. We have a double advantage here in Wales: we have strong, assertive devolution, using all the powers we have to defend people here in Wales, but working people in Wales have very important interests in common with working people in Scotland, England and Northern Ireland. And removing ourselves from those alliances, taking ourselves out of the insurance policy that the United Kingdom provides to working people here in Wales is not the answer to making a success of our future. An assertive devolution in a successful United Kingdom—that is the recipe that defends the interests of Welsh people.