Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:00 pm on 26 May 2021.
Well, Llywydd, I have to agree with the leader of Plaid Cymru that the charge sheet against the present UK Government is a long and serious one. The so-called plan for Wales—a plan made for Wales without Wales: not a single conversation with the Government of Wales in its production; not so much as an invitation to a single conversation with the Secretary of State before it was published, or even an invitation to its launch. I must say, it was deliberate, it was provocative and it was intended to be so. Now, I say to Members on the Conservative benches here that, if we are serious about the future of the United Kingdom—and I'm certainly serious about that topic—we cannot fashion a future for it if the UK Government thinks that the way that that future will be fashioned is to try to roll back the settlements that have been agreed in two referendums here in Wales. And yet, every day—every day—that is what they do. And while they do it, then people who believe in the separation of Wales from the United Kingdom will find the arguments that the leader of Plaid Cymru has made already this afternoon.