Manny Shinwell junior minister) for his lack of zeal about further nationalisation. Shinwell was demoted to Secretary of State for War (Minister for the Army, but no longer a full member of the Cabinet) a position which he held until 1950. He was a vigorous War Minister, who got on well with the Army and was seen as jingoistic. In November 1947 a report from MI5 alleged that Shinwell had passed secret information to a man named "Stanley", who had passed it on to Zionist paramilitary group, the Irgun. Shinwell knew self-styled "contact man" Sidney Stanley, whom he had approached for help
William Bland (politician) the Liberal William Somervell, Bland received 32.5% of the votes cast. He declared that this total was in line with his expectations. Bland stood again in Keighley at the 1918 UK general election. Facing both Somervell and a new Conservative Party opponent, he took third place with 27.7% of the vote. He subsequently focused on local politics, and served as Mayor of Keighley in 1928/28, the first Labour Party politician to hold the post. He died in 1945. William Bland (politician) William Bland (died 1945) was a British politician and trade unionist. Bland worked as a joiner in Keighley, in