First Minister Mark Drakeford has warned the UK could split unless it is recreated as a "solidarity union". In an interview with The Guardian Mr Drakeford said such a union would protect every citizen's fundamental rights such as to affordable public services and trade union protections.
"In order to persuade people in all parts of the United Kingdom that their futures lie together within a restructured United Kingdom we have to recreate a solidarity union," he said. "We have to rebuild the safety net, so you know that your membership of the United Kingdom entitles you to that collective security that it represents."
Mr Drakeford said decades of Tory neoliberalism, introduced by Margaret Thatcher in 1979, had been a "sustained assault on the notion that citizenship means rights". He told The Guardian: "If you move from Scotland to Wales you know that you will take those fundamental rights with you as part of your citizenship. Those have all been eroded progressively by Tory governments, particularly since 1979.
