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 1931, and held junior office in the minority Labour Governments of 1924 and 1929-31. He returned to the House of Commons in 1935, defeating his former leader Ramsay MacDonald, who by that time had been expelled from the Labour Party. During the Second World War he was a leading backbench critic of the Coalition Government. Shinwell is best remembered as the Minister of Fuel and Power in Clement Attlee's Cabinet who nationalised coal mining in 1946. He was in charge of Britain's coal supply during the extremely harsh winter of January to March 1947, during which the supply system collapsed,