Responding to concerns about the deal in the fishing industry, Morgan said: “On the one hand I can understand there are some issues for them but on the other hand their ability to export is going to be much better than it was before.”
Asked if the Welsh government had been consulted over the effect on fishing – control of which is devolved to Wales – she said there had been talks but that she “would have liked more discussion”.
“We’ve had an idea of what’s been going on the whole time but the detail wasn’t finalised until the past few days,” she said.
The Welsh Labour government also welcomed the agreement, with Finance Minister Rebecca Evans saying Wales “is, and always will be, a proudly outward-looking European nation”.
Evans said the Welsh government welcomed the Labour UK government’s “commitment to re-set relations with the EU”, adding that improved relations between the UK and EU created “new opportunities for enhanced security, safety and economic prosperity for citizens and businesses on both sides of the channel”.
The UK Conservatives and Reform UK have described the deal as a “surrender” to the EU, with UK Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch saying that giving the EU access to British waters for 12 years “was three times longer than the government wanted”.
“We’re becoming a rule-taker from Brussels once again,” she said.