Mark Reckless: ...who bravely spoke to BBC Panorama said investigators were undermined, when given cases, by people wanting leniency on anti-Semitism, then taking those cases away. Often, that was people from Jeremy Corbyn's office, but isn't it also what you did, First Minister? I hear the previous First Minister muttering, but when one of your Assembly Members made what were widely considered to be...
Mark Reckless: I give way to the hon. Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn).
Mark Reckless: ...back or what would happen if interest rates go up. Do you seriously believe it’s appropriate for the UK to borrow 300 times as much as Wales? And if so, is your position any more credible than Jeremy Corbyn’s?
Mark Reckless: ...Theresa May offered it to you, including a customs union, you voted against it. Instead, you chose to gamble that you could engineer a second referendum by persuading the British people to elect Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister. With hindsight, do you regret that?
Mark Reckless: ...and will result in Welsh property being less competitive than the other UK nations and regions. Investors will be concerned that, having raised tax once, this could happen again. Having the Corbyn-backing Minister who raised the tax move to the top job may not mollify such fears. The BBC reported on 28 March how Welsh Government may sidestep private investors being unwilling to pay its...
Mark Reckless: ...can put down. So, how, given that they're not going to get this general election, are they then going to get this so-called people's vote? And I don't know the answer to that. It may be that Jeremy Corbyn is happy to take that gamble, because he is content to leave the European Union without a deal. That may well be.
Mark Reckless: ..., which it appears, in their amendment, they go back on. There’s some great negotiation, and, in point 6, we’re asked to note the UK Government’s intention to seek to trigger article 50. Even Jeremy Corbyn, in Westminster, is whipping his MPs to support triggering article 50. Yet the First Minister and his troops are unable to do that. Instead, they seek some sort of compromise to...
Mark Reckless: ...he didn’t want to answer and I think that should be respected. I don’t think anyone really thinks that the Liberal Democrats are insufficiently committed to LGBT rights. And similarly, when Jeremy Corbyn, I think a few weeks ago, said that people chose to be gay, I think that was unfortunate and I think he misspoke and is from a generation and has a view as to what things are. I...
Mark Reckless: I first met Jeremy Corbyn in the 'no' lobby; we were one of 13 MPs voting against the establishment of the European External Action Service, and I met him on numerous occasions thereafter on various EU matters where we were of the same view. I hope he still is of the same view, because I think, once this withdrawal agreement is voted down in the Commons, I don't accept that the alternative is...