Like Scotland, but unlike England and the Union, Cymru has been engaging in an intellectually serious and rigorous consideration of its own constitutional future. The publication of the Welsh Government Constitutional Commission’s report signals a real change for political discourse in Cymru.

And this report is confident as well as serious. At a time when there is a growing crisis of democratic legitimacy at Westminster, and the UK government uses a wholly manufactured refugee crisis as the rationale for an attack on the rule of law, the Welsh Constitutional Commission reasserts the importance of creating a functioning, inclusive democracy, rooted in consent and participation. It is a reminder that Cymru and Scotland are engaged in a far more mature and confident democratic discourse than can be found at post-Brexit Westminster.