If you take a stroll around the Conservative benches, you can still see, even after all this time, the still-glowing embers of the argument that was left behind by David Melding, the last of the unionists, and isn't he missed today? I think what we are seeing from the Conservative Government in Westminster is an attack on devolution, because Peter Fox mentioned subsidiarity. You cannot have subsidiarity without structure, and what this whole programme lacks is structure. Delyth Jewell has already mentioned the fact that Caerphilly, despite having the levels of economic inactivity that justify inclusion, was left out of the community renewal fund. That was a deliberate omission and having had this omission, I spoke to Wayne David MP, who I work very closely with. I'm very lucky as a Member of the Senedd because I've got a very good relationship with my Member of Parliament, and we together have a very good relationship with our county borough council. And together we've spoken about this, and talked about the consequences of these decisions that are being taken. Wayne David was approached about the levelling-up fund by the UK Government to say to him, 'What do you want to spend the levelling-up money on?' Local authorities were not included in the conversation. I wasn't included in the conversation. Wayne was. That's how it's happening throughout Westminster with Members of Parliament, and the majority of those Members of Parliament are Conservative Members of Parliament.

Now, Paul Davies, you know I am not naturally the majority of Members of Parliament. I'm not naturally a party political animal. I don't get up in this Chamber and attack other political parties. You can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I've attacked Plaid Cymru and the Conservatives, but this is a wrong decision. It is undermining devolution and it has no structure behind it. 'There are three key questions', Wayne said to me, 'you should be putting to the Chamber today.' What is the strategy? There is no strategy. What is it connecting to? So, what is Caerphilly borough doing that it connects into? What is the Welsh Government doing that it connects into? Nothing—there is nothing. And what is its value? What value will it bring to those communities that it purports to affect? None. That is the problem with this set of funding. It is about undermining devolution. And I respect Paul Davies and I listened to an awful lot of what you said. I think that you shoehorned your arguments around what crumbs we are getting from Westminster. You shoehorned those arguments around it, and I think Peter Fox, who I've got growing respect for, having first met him in this Chamber, did the same today. 

Now, I think there are independent minds on the Conservative benches, and it is up to them to take the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of David Melding and breathe life into those embers that are left by the last of the unionists. This is your chance. This is your chance to stand up to the UK Government and save devolution.