Well thank you very much, Chair, and it’s a great pleasure to follow my good friend Pedro and see so many friends around the room from both the UK and the European Parliament, but also devolved assemblies and parliaments as well. And coming from Wales in the United Kingdom, and representing a constituency there, it is particularly important that this assembly is able to bring together all those voices, and I know that it does so very, very powerfully.

I wanted to thank you for the warm welcome. I know you’ve just heard from my colleague, Nick Thomas-Symonds, some of us see us as a bit of a double act – we’re both from Wales, we look very, very similar, although I’ve grown a beard recently to distinguish myself. We’re regularly on panels and events together, and hopefully what we will say

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