Opposition say Wales ‘sidelined’ in UK-EU deal

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Opposition parties have accused the UK and Welsh Labour Governments of casting Wales by the wayside over recent UK-EU deals, with Eluned Morgan not being given the chance to sign off on issues that are devolved to Wales.

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00:00Oh, Brexit, how we've missed you.

00:04The central topic of everyone's dinner table conversations for years

00:07is back after the Prime Minister signed a deal with the EU

00:10which seemed to have relaxed some of the concerns regarding a hard Brexit

00:13but has mightily irritated plenty of pro-Brexiteers.

00:17The deal includes continuing rights for European fishing boats

00:20to use British and therefore Welsh waters,

00:23apparently less red tape on exports,

00:25and allows students to study between UK and EU universities,

00:28among plenty of other issues.

00:30Darren Miller and his Welsh Conservatives

00:32have remained relatively pro-Brexite in recent years

00:34and he wants answers of why it seems that what people voted for

00:38in the referendum has been watered down.

00:41Free movement back, payments to the EU back, EU rules back,

00:46and our fishing industry here in Wales betrayed.

00:50An unacceptable mobility scheme,

00:53billions of taxpayers' money going back to Brussels

00:56and being forced to accept EU rules and decisions

00:59from the European Court and our European and European fishing boats

01:05in Welsh waters, in British waters,

01:08for at least the next 12 years.

01:11First Minister, you've got a responsibility to stand up for Wales

01:14and represent us.

01:15Why on earth have you welcomed this absolutely dreadful deal?

01:20I tell you what I do know is the Tories botched Brexit.

01:25The fact is that what we will see now

01:28is much better opportunities for jobs in this country

01:33because people will be able to export to the EU for the first time

01:38without that red tape that occurred before.

01:43The fishing boat issue has been a particular sticking point for many people,

01:47especially here in Wales, as fishing is a devolved matter,

01:50so it's the Welsh Government who make decisions on it.

01:52But without the First Minister around the debating table with the EU,

01:56Darren Miller says that Keir Starmer has forgotten about Wales in the deal,

01:59but Elinia Edmorgan says that she supports it.

02:02The reality is the UK Labour Government did not consult with you

02:05and it did not consult with this Welsh Labour Government

02:08in spite of the fact that many of the parts of this deal

02:13are going to have an impact here in Wales.

02:16You simply don't have a voice, do you, First Minister?

02:18You claim to stand up for Wales,

02:20but the reality is that the UK Government

02:23and the Prime Minister don't give a rip about what you say or think.

02:28We were engaged the whole way through with the debates.

02:32I am so pleased that the priorities that we set out,

02:36things like making sure that SPS was in there,

02:40making sure that we have defence opportunities,

02:43making sure that issues in relation to steel and youth and exchange and energy,

02:48all of these things were things that we asked for.

02:51I am very pleased that they were there.

02:53We simply weren't there at the very end of the process

02:56because that's how government works.

02:59They are connecting with CRT.

03:01At the very end of the time,

03:02I feel so very clear that it was hard to trust that we carry out today

03:05that it was more profound for today,

03:08so, it was due to noon and early to few years of the décider

03:11that we were at the Biru close to two weeks.

03:15We were nowывает as a EuropeanienteUTOR party,

03:17in which people were marked as a European

03:19sytuaccely auxisan role with thegeysk 2015

03:21divided by each single month,

03:23and as a Canadian company has supported that and many different

03:25who intended to be real and ongoing to move into this mess,

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