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
Sydney Smith (British politician) Sydney Smith (British politician) Sydney Herbert Smith (27 April 1885 – 12 June 1984) was a Labour Party politician in England. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Kingston upon Hull South West in the Labour landslide at the 1945 general election, and held the seat until the constituency was abolished for the 1950 general election. He did not stand again. Sydney Smith came from a family of tailors that moved from Birmingham, to Ipswich, and finally to London where he was born in 1885. There was always some politics in his life, though not initially of the