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
Manny Shinwell 1931, and held junior office in the minority Labour Governments of 1924 and 1929-31. He returned to the House of Commons in 1935, defeating his former leader Ramsay MacDonald, who by that time had been expelled from the Labour Party. During the Second World War he was a leading backbench critic of the Coalition Government. Shinwell is best remembered as the Minister of Fuel and Power in Clement Attlee's Cabinet who nationalised coal mining in 1946. He was in charge of Britain's coal supply during the extremely harsh winter of January to March 1947, during which the supply system collapsed,