BREXIT dominated discussions at the second day of the Welsh Liberal Democrats’ spring conference today, with members agreeing to call for a second referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union.

Although the party is not calling for a second vote on whether Britain should remain a member of Europe, it has approved a motion to demand a vote once negotiations with the union are concluded.

Speaking at the conference, former Lib Dem MEP Peter Price, who sat in the European Parliament from 1979 until 1994, called the process of leaving Europe “an unprecedented negotiation”.

“The world has never seen a negotiation like the one we are about to embark upon,” he said.

He also dismissed claims the UK would be a stronger position for trade agreements outside Europe and said he was unconvinced the negotiations could be completed in the proposed two year period.

“The best we can really hope for is a transitional agreement at the end of those two years for most of the detail,” he said.

Chairman of the party’s South Wales East Valleys group Brendan D’Cruz also spoke during the debate, in which he compared the negotiations to game show Deal or no Deal.

“I do not want to walk away with 1p,” he said.

The party’s present Roger Williams also said he supported plans for the second referendum, calling Brexit “One of the greatest threats facing the UK at the moment”.

“I have been reluctant to get too stuck into this issue because we have to let it unfold a little,” he said.

“Now is the time to make this call.”

Members also discussed the party’s policies for skills and lifelong learning, as well as plans to introduce the deposit return system, which aims to cut the amount of non-recyclable material in the ocean, and its work with young people.

The party also agreed to back plans to introduce the Universal Basic Income, through which everyone is provided with an income by the Government.

Speaking in support of the plans, Montgomeryshire campaigner Jane Dodds said: “We need to take some risks and look at whether we adopt this as a policy.”

A review of governance within the party was also on the agenda for the second and final day of the conference at Swansea’s Bishop Gore School which counts legendary Welsh poet Dylan Thomas among its ex-pupils.

Mr Williams, who was MP for Brecon and Radnorshire from 2001 until 2015, closed the conference with a speech in which he paid tribute to party members, election candidates, staff and volunteers, saying: “We are set up for the local government election on May 4”.

“I certainly go away heartened and encouraged by what I’ve seen and heard,” he said.

Closing his speech, he said: “I wish you all the very best in your endeavours, and when we meet again I hope to see a lot more Liberal Democrat councillors in front of me.”

The next spring conference on the political calendar is the Welsh Conservatives, who will meet at Cardiff’s SWALEC stadium on Friday and Saturday this week, with an appearance by prime minister Theresa May expected. Welsh Labour will hold the final spring conference of this year at Venue Cymru in Llandudno the following weekend.