Government of Wales Bill

I would be happy to see another referendum that included that question, but that is my preference, not my party’s. There is a slight difference between us on that. I have never made any secret of my view and I shall not pretend that I have changed my mind in the past few weeks. As the hon. Gentleman says, the referendum was on whether to have an Assembly, not a Parliament with primary legislative powers. If we are to have such a Parliament, we should have a full referendum on it. I do not accept the implication that perhaps more people would have voted in favour of a Welsh Assembly had they been offered a Parliament. Had the Government thought that there was any support for having primary legislative powers in Wales, that would have been on offer in the first place, not the model we have now. Indeed, that would have been a far more coherent way to go about the project.