Questions Without Notice from the Party Leaders

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:00 pm on 9 November 2021.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 2:00, 9 November 2021

Well, Llywydd, I heard the interview that Sir John Major gave at the weekend, and it was a very powerful indictment of the more recent developments at Westminster. If Members haven't had an opportunity to hear it, I think it's worth 20 minutes of anybody's time. The accumulating evidence of the way in which the current Conservative Government discharges its responsibilities, I think, would shock anybody who has the interests of a healthy, functioning democracy at heart. And it's not just in these areas. You'll remember that Sir John Major began his interview by saying that there was a whiff of this Government acting in a way that, 'We are the masters now.' In other words, 'We can do what we like, where we like, how we like.' And that is just as true of their treatment of the devolution settlement as it is of the issues to which the leader of Plaid Cymru has referred today. In the end, it risks bringing not just themselves into disrepute but the institutions on which we all rely into disrepute as well, and there is a great deal of recovery to be done if the events of the last 10 days are not to leave a lasting legacy.