Manny Shinwell leaving Britain to freeze and close down. He became unpopular with the public and was sacked in October 1947. He then served as Secretary of State for War and then as Minister of Defence in 1950-51. The high defence spending which he demanded, partly to pay for Britain's involvement in the Korean War, was a major factor causing Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell to impose NHS charges, prompting the resignation of Aneurin Bevan from the Cabinet. After Labour's defeat in 1951, Shinwell continued to serve in the Shadow Cabinet in Opposition until he stepped down in 1955. Thereafter he
Manny Shinwell Manny Shinwell Emanuel Shinwell, Baron Shinwell, (18 October 1884 – 8 May 1986), known informally as Manny Shinwell, was a British Labour politician. Born in the East End of London to a large family of Jewish immigrants, he moved to Glasgow as a boy and left school at eleven. He became a trade union organiser and one of the leading figures of Red Clydeside. He was imprisoned for six weeks in 1919 for his alleged involvement in the disturbances in Glasgow in January 1919. Shinwell was a Labour MP from 1922 to 1924 and from a by-election in 1928 until