The inter-ministerial machinery we've agreed is what should take place, and it's consistently not taking place on significant issues. We have the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill introduced without there being any engagement with us. We should have early engagement  on Bills that affect devolved competence; it simply isn't happening. The most egregious breach is the one announcing in the explanatory memorandum the intention to repeal Welsh legislation that has gone through this Parliament through all forms of scrutiny, through all of the stages of scrutiny and not being challenged in the Supreme Court. My concern is that we will end up having institutional conflict rather than looking to what we want to do, which is to find a way forward to make sure there's certainty for the jobs and businesses that rely on predictable trading arrangements, as opposed to a constant attempt to rejig headlines to avoid those much larger questions. It's about the inability of the Government to function at a UK level that leads us to where we are today, and having yet another statement about border controls, because I gave a commitment to update.

We're having to give up some risk to implement measures to make sure Holyhead can trade in the future with permanent arrangements to avoid there being extra cost to the public purse, but we're still not getting ministerial engagement about relatively straightforward points where it's in our interest to be constructive and engaged. It's so much better to have a plan, even if you disagree with it, than no plan at all. It's so much better to have engagement at an early level to resolve issues, even if you disagree with the approach that is being taken. The issue we have is a lack of competence and consistency and an inability to have a plan at all from the current Government in the United Kingdom level. I'd much rather be more constructive, in the tone that was struck with Sam Kurtz in his opening, but that approach simply isn't available to us with this current iteration of the UK Government.