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
Manny Shinwell Companions of Honour in the 1965 Birthday Honours. He was vehemently opposed to Wilson's attempt to enter the EEC in 1966, and resigned as Chairman of the Labour Party in 1967. He got on well both with Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and with the journalist Sir John Junor. Shinwell was created a life peer as Baron Shinwell, of Easington in the County of Durham, on 19 June 1970. He later became chair of the All-Party Lords Defence Study Group. In 1973 he published another volume of memoirs, "I've Lived through It All". He voted against the Labour Government in 1976.