I have to say, Llywydd, that I am shocked by the hypocrisy of the Conservatives here, denigrating north-south links, saying that there's been too much investment in south Wales, when they wanted to spend billions of pounds on the M4 in the south-east. I am shocked that Carolyn Thomas asked this question given that she was so lackadaisical on the Sharp End programme on ITV Wales last night about north-south links, saying that there wasn't much of a problem with north-south links because the Welsh Government was investing in digital. Now, don't misunderstand me, as the chair of the cross-party group on digital Wales, I welcome the investment in digital signal processing, but don't try to tell me that that investment has anything to do with transport connections between north and south. The Welsh Government has shown in the way that they've made this decision that they've looked at the cost of the flight between Cardiff and Anglesey, but haven't considered its value—its value as a sign that our Government cares about uniting our nation through swift transport, that Ministers care about reaching out to areas that, I promise you, do feel very far away from the capital city at times, where our Government is based. 

Now, as I've said in the past, I was pragmatic and said that of course our new ways of working in light of COVID had weakened the business plan. We don't always need to travel from one end of the country to another. I said that of course our increasing concern about the environment was something that should be welcomed, and that also changes the context. But, the question that I asked, very simply, was: if not an air link as an investment in the value of our connections from one end of the country to another, then what? And what we got in this announcement was nothing. No commitment whatsoever, no investment whatsoever in improving and strengthening connections between north and south, and no sign that this Government cares about how our nation is linked economically and socially.