Manny Shinwell junior minister) for his lack of zeal about further nationalisation. Shinwell was demoted to Secretary of State for War (Minister for the Army, but no longer a full member of the Cabinet) a position which he held until 1950. He was a vigorous War Minister, who got on well with the Army and was seen as jingoistic. In November 1947 a report from MI5 alleged that Shinwell had passed secret information to a man named "Stanley", who had passed it on to Zionist paramilitary group, the Irgun. Shinwell knew self-styled "contact man" Sidney Stanley, whom he had approached for help
James Kidd (politician) James Kidd (politician) James Kidd (11 March 1872 – 2 March 1928) was a Unionist Party politician in Scotland. He sat in the House of Commons from 1918 to 1922, and from 1924 until his death. He was elected at the 1918 general election as Member of Parliament MP for Linlithgowshire, standing as a Coalition Unionist (i.e. a supporter of David Lloyd George's Coalition Government). He was defeated at the 1922 general election by the Labour Party candidate Manny Shinwell. Kidd stood again in 1923, without success, but defeated Shinwell at the 1924 general election and held the seat until