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
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