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
Robert Bower (Conservative politician) Robert Bower (Conservative politician) Commander Robert Tatton Bower (9 June 1894 – 5 July 1975) was a Royal Navy officer and a Conservative Party politician in England. At the 1931 general election he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Cleveland. He was re-elected in 1935, and held the seat until his defeat at the 1945 general election by the Labour Party candidate George Willey. On 4 April 1938 Bower was involved in a notorious House of Commons incident when he interrupted Jewish Labour MP Emanuel Shinwell, telling him to "go back to Poland". Shinwell walked across the floor