WELSH Labour leadership contender Jeremy Miles pledged immediate action on the economy and the NHS, and ministerial equality for women if he is elected.

Setting out a plan yesterday for his first week in office, Mr Miles, presently Education Minister in Cardiff, also committed to a review of the controversial 20mph speed limit on Wales’s roads.

Other promises for the first seven days included appointing a government team where at least half of all ministers are women and setting up a new national economic council to advise on developing “prosperity and solidarity.”