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
John Carnegie (Labour politician) He served on the Forfarshire Education Authority Works Committee. He stood for the Labour Party in Montrose Burghs at the 1922 and 1923 UK general elections, taking a close second place on each occasion. John Carnegie (Labour politician) John Carnegie (1860 – 4 February 1928) was a Scottish politician. Born in Brechin, Carnegie began working at the age of ten. He became interested in socialism, joining the Socialist League, and was an early member of the Scottish Labour Party, then became a founding member of the Independent Labour Party (ILP). Under this label, he was elected to the Dundee Public