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
Antisemitism in the UK Labour Party general election, sociologist David Hirsh alleges Corbyn's "antisemitic... politics... did not seem to be an issue" with voters, with the possible exception of four constituencies with significant Jewish populations, and discusses the impact of the near win by a Labour Party, he says, is led by man who has a "decades-long association with antisemitic politics" who has "for his whole career, embraced or tolerated certain kinds of antisemitic... politics," and "long been connected to antisemitic ways of thinking and antisemitic movements". The significance of the Jewish vote was argued to have manifested in the "Bagel belt", consisting of four seats