Dr. Ian Cooper:

I will respond to a point made by Deputy Howlin. He asked about how the UK-EU relationship is going to develop if there are some people within the British Government who have an interest in permanent conflict. Looking at the Parliamentary Partnership Assembly, the solution is to sideline those people, basically. It seemed most of the people in the Parliamentary Partnership Assembly were remainers or former remainers who, with a heavy heart, have accepted the fact of Brexit and are now trying to make it work. It is those kinds of middle-of-the-road former remainers, people like Hilary Benn, Oliver Heald and Robert Goodwill, who will actually make Brexit work. They are often just Tories but they are reasonable Tories. The European scrutiny committee, which is within the British Parliament, is full of Brexiteers. They wanted more representation on the Parliamentary Partnership Assembly but they did not get it. That might be an indication of the way forward in practical terms.