The United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2021

Part of 2. Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution – in the Senedd at 2:49 pm on 30 June 2021.

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Photo of Delyth Jewell Delyth Jewell Plaid Cymru 2:49, 30 June 2021

Counsel General, you've said that you will now bring forward an appeal to challenge this flagrant attack on Senedd competence. From day one, Plaid Cymru identified the threat to our hard-won democratic powers, and the reality is that there is a supermajority here in this Parliament to extend those powers, but the Westminster Government is denying that majority and that mandate. Their actions now are so blatant that even Labour Ministers here who once defended the union are questioning its capacity to deliver for the people of Wales. So, Counsel General, given that you are announcing a national conversation about our future powers, including, of course, the implications of the internal market Act, will you confirm that all options will be discussed in that process, including a contingency plan for the break-up of the UK in the event of Scottish independence or Irish unification?