Jeremy Miles

Jeremy Miles MS
Official portrait, 2024
Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Welsh Language
Incumbent
Assumed office 21 March 2024
First Minister	Vaughan Gething
Preceded by	Vaughan Gething (Economy) Himself (Welsh Language)
Minister for Education and Welsh Language
In office 13 May 2021 – 20 March 2024
First Minister	Mark Drakeford
Preceded by	Kirsty Williams (Education) Eluned Morgan (Welsh Language)
Succeeded by	Lynne Neagle
Minister for European Transition
In office 13 December 2018 – 13 May 2021
First Minister	Mark Drakeford
Preceded by	Mark Drakeford
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Counsel General for Wales
In office 16 November 2017 – 13 May 2021
First Minister	Carwyn Jones Mark Drakeford
Preceded by	Mick Antoniw
Succeeded by	Mick Antoniw
Member of the Senedd for Neath
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 May 2016
Preceded by	Gwenda Thomas
Majority	5,221 (18.9%)
Personal details
Born	August 1971 (age 52) Pontarddulais, Wales
Political party	Labour Co-op
Residence(s)	Swansea Valley, Wales
Alma mater	New College, Oxford
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Jeremy Miles (born August 1971) is a Welsh Labour Co-op politician, serving as Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Welsh Language since 2024.^[1] He 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.^[2] Miles has been the Member of the Senedd (MS) for Neath since 2016.

In December 2023 Miles became one of two candidates in the Welsh Labour leadership election to replace Mark Drakeford as party leader, losing to Vaughan Gething.^[3]