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MI5 spied on Labour MPs including a serving defence minister, new files reveal
BRITAIN’S security service spied on Labour MPs, anti-fascists and anti-colonial activists, MI5 files released today reveal. PHIL MILLER went to the National Archives for a sneak preview, and found this newspaper’s predecessor, the Daily Worker, was essential reading for British spooks
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Manny Shinwell: The war secretary with an MI5 file
ONE of Glasgow’s leading socialists Manny Shinwell first came to the attention of MI5 in 1917, when he was picked out for being a conscientious objector to World War I.
Shinwell would go on to become chairman of the Labour Party, nationalise Britain’s coalmines and serve as a minister in charge of British troops in Malaya and Korea — but MI5 remained wary of this remarkable character, whose great-niece is none other than the Lib Dem politician Luciana Berger.
Her relative was described by MI5 as early as 1917 as a “most eloquent and convincing speaker” who had been repeatedly arrested for protesting against conscription in Glasgow.
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