What are we worried about. Denis Healey, erstwhile defence minister, was a member of the Communist party.....
Beachmaster at Anzio.
Speaking at a House of Lords discussion on his career last year, former Labour MP and House of Commons speaker Betty Boothroyd remembered how "intellectual thug" Healey's wartime service left him with a unique position of authority as Defence Secretary.
She recalled how on one occasion he was being "talked down to" by an Admiral who'd never seen wartime service - at which point he warned:
"Look here - if you go on talking to me in those terms, I'll crawl under this table and I'll chew your balls off!"