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
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.