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Greenwood became deputy leader of the Labour Party under Clement Attlee , with Winston Churchill appointing him to the British War Cabinet as Minister Without Portfolio in 1940 . He was generally seen as ineffectual, but in May 1940 he emerged as Churchill's strongest and most vocal supporter in the lengthy War Cabinet debates on whether to accept or reject a peace offer from Germany. After that his position declined and he resigned in 1943. Until the end of World War II he performed the function of Leader Of The Opposition , though he did not receive the salary. During the Attlee government, he served successively as Lord Privy Seal and Paymaster-General . Greenwood's son Anthony Greenwood (later Lord Greenwood) ( 1911 – 1982 ) was an MP from 1946 and a member of Harold Wilson 's governments. |