Jeremy Miles
| Jeremy Miles AM | |
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.jpg) Miles in 2016 | |
| Member of the Welsh Assembly for Neath | |
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Assumed office 6 April 2016 | |
| Preceded by | Gwenda Thomas |
| Majority | 2,923 (11.5%) |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Welsh Labour |
Jeremy Miles AM is the Welsh Labour and Co-operative Party Assembly Member in the Welsh Government for Neath.
Early life
He 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. He graduated from New College, Oxford University, where he read law. After graduating, he taught law at the Centre for English Legal Studies, Warsaw University.
He 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.
He stood unsuccessfully as the Labour candidate in the safe Conservative seat of Beaconsfield at the 2010 general election.
After returning to live in South Wales, he set up his own business affairs consultancy working with international clients in the broadcast and digital sectors.
He narrowly missed being selected as the Parliamentary candidate for the safe Labour seat of Aberavon for the 2015 general election, being beaten by Stephen Kinnock by one vote.[1]
Assembly Member for Neath
Following the announcement by Gwenda Thomas, Assembly Member for Neath that she was planning to stand down at the National Assembly for Wales election, 2016, he was selected to stand as the Labour and Co-operative candidate in Neath constituency in October 2015, following a twinned selection process with Gower constituency.[2]
He was until his selection as the candidate for Neath a trustee and secretary of the social justice charity the Bevan Foundation.[3]
He was elected to the National Assembly for Wales in May 2016 and was one of the first out gay AMs elected.[4] He sits on the Economy, Skills and Infrastructure committee, Culture, Welsh Language and Communications committee and the External Affairs committee and is the chair of the Co-operative group of AMs.[5]
In the news
In August 2016, he warned that public disillusionment with politics could threaten devolution in Wales.[6] He expanded in 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".[7]
He also entered the Pinc List : The 40 most influential lesbian, gay, bi and trans people in Wales for the first time.[8]
Other activities
He is a member of GMB and Unite.
Prior to being elected, he had volunteered as a youth mentor with the Young Foundation, and also as an adviser at free legal advice centres. He was an adviser to the Use Your Vote campaign for the 2010 UK general election. His political interests include economic and community development, skills, co-ops and mutuals.
He lives in Alltwen in the Neath constituency and enjoys film, reading, cooking, hiking and cycling and following rugby locally.
References
- ↑ Stephen Kinnock elected Labour candidate in Aberavon http://www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/stephen-kinnock-elected-labour-candidate-aberavon/story-20842403-detail/story.html
- ↑ Rebecca Evans and Jeremy Miles selected to contest Assembly Seats http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/rebecca-evans-jeremy-miles-picked-10209301
- ↑ Jeremy Miles to step down as Bevan Foundation trustee https://www.bevanfoundation.org/news/2015/10/jeremy-miles-to-stand-down-as-trustee/
- ↑ First three openly gay and lesbian AMs 'a milestone' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-36230898
- ↑ Jeremy Miles AM, Profile, Assembly Wales http://www.assembly.wales/en/memhome/Pages/MemberProfile.aspx?mid=5021
- ↑ Deans, David (2016-08-26). "Labour AM warns of threat to devolution in Brexit vote wake". BBC News. Retrieved 2016-09-13.
- ↑ Miles, Jeremy (2016-08-31). "The three lessons the Assembly needs to learn from Brexit". Retrieved 2016-09-13.
- ↑ Administrator, walesonline (2016-08-13). "The Pinc List 2016: The 40 most influential LGBT people in Wales". Retrieved 2016-09-13.