Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:05 pm on 28 September 2021.
I am told that the First Minister yesterday at Brighton received a standing ovation. Obviously, I wasn't there to witness it, but he said this—he described the importance of retaining power in order to make a difference in our communities. Yet, today, we have a Welsh Government conceding power to the Conservative Party at Westminster. This is what the First Minister said:
'Everything Labour has achieved in Wales...has been achieved in the teeth of one of the most awful UK Government's we have ever seen. Incompetent to its core and automatically hostile to anyone who does not share its visceral reactionary instincts at home or abroad.'
So, you have it from our First Minister—awful, incompetent, hostile, reactionary—yet, today, it's good enough, in the eyes of the Welsh Government, to pass legislation in a crucial area for the well-being of the people of Wales today and in the future. Powers over our environment, a devolved area for over 20 years, handed back to Boris Johnson's awful, incompetent, hostile and reactionary Government.