![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/hillary-clinton-offered-to-set-me-up-on-a-date-says-welsh-minister/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/130699299_milesandclinton.jpg&description=Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Hillary Clinton, who lost the US presidential election in 2016, visited Swansea University in 2019 It wasn't exactly where he expected the conversation to go when he sat beside Hillary Clinton. But Welsh government minister Jeremy Miles found himself being offered to be set up on a blind date by the former US secretary of state, presidential candidate and First Lady. Sitting beside her at an event at Swansea University, Mr Miles said he thanked her for referring to LGBT rights in a speech she had given, before explaining he was the first gay cabinet minister of a government in Wales. He said: "She asked me if I had a partner and I was newly single at that point, and she very kindly offered to introduce me to some of her friends. "Including - I won't mention his name - but a world leader. "I did not say yes, I thought that would be a step too far." It was a long way from his days as a teenager at Ystalyfera Comprehensive School in the Swansea valleys, where he says he went to bed wishing he would wake up and "not be gay". Image source, Jeremy Miles Image caption, Jeremy Miles, pictured with Hillary Clinton, is the first gay cabinet member of the Welsh government On BBC Radio Wales's Walescast podcast, the education and Welsh language minister said he struggled with a lack of positive gay role models and that his family "absolutely did not talk about it" at the time. He said: "I knew that I was different and I wasn't quite sure what way exactly, but I knew that I was different. And obviously, by the time I became a teenager, I had a much stronger sense that I was gay, but you didn't see that anywhere, it wasn't talked about in school at all. "My family, absolutely did not talk about it. And when I came out to them very much later, that was incredibly painful." He added: "There was a long time when I would have given anything not to feel like that. I used to go to bed praying that I would wake up not being gay. "That has change){kind=link}
It wasn’t exactly where he expected the conversation to go when he sat beside Hillary Clinton.
But Welsh government minister Jeremy Miles found himself being offered to be set up on a blind date by the former US secretary of state, presidential candidate and First Lady.
Sitting beside her at an event at Swansea University, Mr Miles said he thanked her for referring to LGBT rights in a speech she had given, before explaining he was the first gay cabinet minister of a government in Wales.
He said: “She asked me if I had a partner and I was newly single at that point, and she very kindly offered to introduce me to some of her friends.
“Including – I won’t mention his name – but a world leader.