LAST week I was selected to address Theresa May in Prime Minister’s Questions.

I asked her why she is willing to risk the break-up of Britain with her reckless approach to Brexit.

She wants to rip us away from the European single market - while the Scottish Nationalists want to break up the UK single market.

Our two single markets are the backbone of our economy, but Theresa May is risking our economy and our union with her approach. She offered nothing in response to my question.

On top of this, there was no mention of Brexit in the Chancellor’s Spring Budget.

The biggest economic challenge facing this country in generations - but it was not mentioned.

There were no answers on the question of the additional debt that the OBR has predicted is going to be added to the national debt; no answers on whether Wales is going to be left worse off as a result of the potential changes to regional finance and structural funds; no answers to the exchange rate volatility that is causing prices at the pump to go up; and no answers on the single market, or the impact of tariffs if we end up in the “deal or no deal” situation that the prime minister seems to be leading us towards.

We should consider what else was missing too.

Where was mention of climate change, or further support for the steel industry, or support for veterans—including younger veterans who are struggling with housing costs and are discriminated against in housing benefit? Where was action to right the injustices for women pensioners? Where was the money to address the police cuts? Where was the help on energy prices when people are seeing their bills go up?

The Budget was a shambles, and we have already seen the chancellor forced into a humiliating climb-down on his plan to put up National Insurance contributions for self-employed people – a move which would have broken a Tory manifesto pledge and was described by the Federation of Small Businesses as “a tax grab on middle-income self-employed people who are just about managing.”

This Red Book is one of the thinnest Budget books we’ve seen, because there is a whole lot missing from it – and not only that, we now know the chancellor will have to rethink the bits that are in it.