The Rt. Hon. Emanuel Shinwell, C.H., M.P. talks to Kenneth Harris.

"We regarded ourselves as missionaries. We had no thoughts about becoming members of governments or indeed of ever even becoming M.P.s..."
"You know we should never threaten unless we're prepared to act. It's always been my philosophy..."
"Gaitskell was very competent, highly intelligent, but I doubt whether he had the quality that a Prime Minister requires..."

Emanuel Shinwell, born in the East End of Queen Victoria's London, Trade Union organiser in Glasgow before the first War, jailed for five months in 1919; member of four Labour governments, Companion of Honour. At eighty-two Labour's elder statesman is as outspoken and pugnacious as when he was first drawn to politics at the beginning of the century.

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