Manny Shinwell in finding employment for his son Ernie, and Stanley had obtained information on the disbandment of the Transjordan Frontier Force from some government source. Shinwell's seat became Easington at the February 1950 election, after which he was promoted to Minister of Defence and became a full member of the Cabinet once more. Edmund Dell described him as "putty in the hands of the defence chiefs" and his promotion as "[a] ludicrous appointment. No failure was ever great enough to persuade Attlee to deny one of his cohorts new opportunities to do damage … Shinwell never forgave Gaitskell, whom he blamed
Manny Shinwell Companions of Honour in the 1965 Birthday Honours. He was vehemently opposed to Wilson's attempt to enter the EEC in 1966, and resigned as Chairman of the Labour Party in 1967. He got on well both with Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and with the journalist Sir John Junor. Shinwell was created a life peer as Baron Shinwell, of Easington in the County of Durham, on 19 June 1970. He later became chair of the All-Party Lords Defence Study Group. In 1973 he published another volume of memoirs, "I've Lived through It All". He voted against the Labour Government in 1976.