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
Paul Williams (Labour politician) Paul Williams (Labour politician) Paul Daniel Williams (born 23 August 1972) is a British Labour Party politician and general practitioner (GP). Since the 2017 general election, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stockton South. Paul Williams was born on 23 August 1972 in Canterbury, England. His parents worked as a teacher and a nurse respectively. His early education was at the Neale Wade School in March, Cambridgeshire. He started to support the Labour Party during the UK miners' strike (1984–85) and joined the party when he was studying medicine at the Newcastle University Medical School. Williams also