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
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