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
William Bland (politician) the Liberal William Somervell, Bland received 32.5% of the votes cast. He declared that this total was in line with his expectations. Bland stood again in Keighley at the 1918 UK general election. Facing both Somervell and a new Conservative Party opponent, he took third place with 27.7% of the vote. He subsequently focused on local politics, and served as Mayor of Keighley in 1928/28, the first Labour Party politician to hold the post. He died in 1945. William Bland (politician) William Bland (died 1945) was a British politician and trade unionist. Bland worked as a joiner in Keighley, in