Thank you, Chair. I think the only characterisation I could offer you of the state of play with the UK Government is that it is mixed. I can't give you a more precise answer, really. Our relations with the Department for International Trade have been amongst the better relationships—in some ways, unexpectedly. But, even when Liam Fox was the Secretary of State, we had a better relationship with him and his department than you might have originally feared. So, at a practical level, the support we have from UK embassies overseas, for example, is always very good. When I was in Oslo with the Urdd, for the whole of the visit that I made, the deputy ambassador was part of that programme. They were hugely helpful in helping us to be able to set up meetings, not just with companies, but I met, for example, the council for indigenous languages in Norway, which was really interesting and there have been some follow-ups with them on language planning and normalisation and really interesting things there. I met the youth council for Norway when I was there, and I particularly wanted to meet them, because, as I know Alun will know, political parties in Norway have a much stronger tradition of youth wings and youth participation in the political process. And given our 16 to 17-year-olds, I wanted to meet them and to hear how that works and what they do, and so on. And those doors were opened for us by the embassy on the ground. So, in those practical things, the relationships are often perfectly good and positive and well-disposed towards Wales in helping us to do what we do. So, that's the good side of it.
The meta picture is much more difficult because we disagree so much on fundamentals here. The UK Government trumpets the trade deals that it has struck with Australia, for example, and New Zealand, and, for us, we're much more anxious about that for two reasons—three reasons, perhaps. There's that economic dictum that trade halves as distance doubles, so, for us, we have long-standing relationships, as Alun Davies said, in Australia and New Zealand, but, economically, the European Union is so much more important to us, so I much wish that they would put their efforts into making that work rather than trade deals remotely in the rest of the world. Then, we are worried that part of the doing of a deal elsewhere in the world will make new barriers to trade with the European Union, because of comparable standards and regulatory alignment, and so on. And then—and this is my belief—the UK Government has been willing to sacrifice the interests of UK agriculture, particularly hill farmers, in order to get a deal on things that are more important to them, but from our point of view are much more worrying. So, on some of those broader, bigger political themes, the relationship is much more difficult because we fundamentally disagree on the day-to-day delivery, and the help we get on the ground is a more positive picture.