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
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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,