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15 Facts About Jeremy Miles

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Jeremy Miles MS is a Welsh Labour and Co-operative Party politician serving as Minister for Education and Minister for the Welsh Language in the Welsh Government since 2021.

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Jeremy Miles has been the Member of the Senedd for Neath since 2016.

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Jeremy Miles previously served in the Welsh Government as Counsel General for Wales from 2017 to 2021, Brexit Minister from 2018 to 2021, and the Minister for coordinating Wales' recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic from 2020 to 2021.

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Jeremy Miles was born and brought up in Pontarddulais near Swansea, south Wales and as a native Welsh speaker, was educated at a bilingual comprehensive school – Ysgol Gyfun Ystalyfera in the Swansea Valley.

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Jeremy Miles graduated from New College, Oxford University, where he read law.

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Jeremy Miles returned to the UK and practised as a solicitor in London initially, and then held senior legal and commercial posts in media sector businesses including ITV and with the US television network and film studio, NBC Universal, based in London.

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7.

Jeremy Miles stood unsuccessfully as the Labour candidate in the safe Conservative seat of Beaconsfield at the 2010 general election.

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Jeremy Miles stood in the Labour selection for Aberavon in 2014, losing the selection to Stephen Kinnock by one vote.

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Jeremy Miles was until his selection as the candidate for Neath a trustee and secretary of the social justice charity the Bevan Foundation.

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10.

Jeremy Miles was elected to the Senedd in May 2016 and was one of the first out gay MSs elected.

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11.

Jeremy Miles was nominated to the cabinet-level role of Counsel General.

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12.

Jeremy Miles expanded on this in an essay for Western Mail where he warned "if we assume the only choice is between complacency and immediate disaster, then we will fail to learn the lessons of Brexit".

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Jeremy Miles is a member of the Co-operative Party and was elected chair of the Co-operative Group of Senedd Members in 2016.

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Jeremy Miles is a member of the GMB and Unite trade unions.

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Jeremy Miles was an adviser to the Use Your Vote campaign for the 2010 UK general election.

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