The people of Wales last week stamped their authority on its Senedd. This sixth Senedd will be free to focus on the job in hand, without unnecessary distractions. As your Llywydd, I'd want to enable emboldened scrutiny of Government, I'd want to ensure enhanced opportunities for backbench contribution from all parties, and also to examine all sorts of ways in which we can work in new, innovative ways.

This Llywydd election is a neighbourly election—the Members for Montgomeryshire and for Ceredigion. I guess that in olden times we would have sorted that out as a duel at dawn on the mountains of Pumlumon, but this feels far safer and we'll both live to tell the tale, Russell.

So, I'd be privileged to serve as your Llywydd in this Senedd. And I'll say this for the very last time this May: please vote for me.