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
Georgia Gould (politician) Georgia Gould (politician) Georgia Gould (born May 1986) is a British Labour Party politician, the leader of Camden London Borough Council since May 2017, when she succeeded Sarah Hayward. She was born in May 1986, the daughter of fellow politician Philip Gould, Baron Gould of Brookwood, who died in 2011. Her mother is Gail Rebuck, chair of Penguin Random House UK and a Labour peer. She has a younger sister, Grace. Educated at Camden School for Girls, Gould studied history and politics at St Catherine's College, Oxford, and holds a master's degree in global politics from the London School of