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Chancellor Alistair Darling warns of threat to economy by cutting spending during fragile recovery• Andrew Sparrow's election liveblogLabour and the trade unions today piled pressure on the Conservatives over their plans to impose £12bn of government efficiency savings this year.They attacked the proposals amid reports that they could...Read Full Story
UK Today News: UK Budget 2010
UK Chancellor Alistair Darling has announced the UK budget ahead of the general election and has warned voters with a budget that can help the people and in turn, help the Labour to survive.
So what are the main points and changes discussed in the UK budget 2010?
For starters, Darling cut stamp duty for first-time home buyers – while also revealing several tax increases for the well-off people.
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Exclusive: Gordon Brown backs Alistair Darling to stay as chancellor after election as he sets out Labour's election promiseGordon Brown tomorrow unveils Labour's key election pledges, promising that a re-elected Labour government, which would retain Alistair Darling as chancellor, would help create a million skilled jobs, a state...Read Full Story
LONDON (Reuters) - An outright win for Britain's opposition Conservatives would suit financial markets best in an upcoming election, but economists polled by Reuters ranked the party's likely choice for finance minister poorly against peers. The poll of 31 economists taken this week showed an increasing number predicting a hung parliament in the poll on May 6 and warning this was the worst result for markets. The poll results derive from extra questions put to Reuters' regular panel of...Read Full Story
Chancellor Alistair Darling has vowed to hike taxes on the rich to help the poor hit by the global downturn, and to cut borrowing targets in a budget unveiled weeks before a knife-edge election. Unveiling his last budget ahead of a general election expected on May 6, Darling warned growth would be weaker than expected in 2011 as Britain recovers from a record recession. Opinion polls suggest that the election will be a tight contest between the ruling Labour Party and the main opposition...Read Full Story
ALISTAIR DARLING has criticised the "tawdry" treatment meted out to Fred Goodwin after the banker was humiliatingly stripped of his knighthood. The former chancellor voiced distaste at the way Mr Goodwin had been singled out by the Government, while other ...
Darling was given a brief to "take the department out of the headlines" and was widely considered to have achieved this, although he was also criticised for achieving too little else whilst he held the transport brief. He oversaw the creation of Network ...
Sir Fred is shredded, one of the crudest acts of populism since Saint Patrick chased the snakes out of Ireland, and all the parties are united. George Osborne says that "RBS came to symbolise everything that went wrong in the British economy ...
The Chancellor of the Exchequer was reimbursed for a £1,000 service charge bill on his flat in south London that covered up to six months after he had moved out and begun letting the property to tenants. He also continued to bill taxpayers for £1,200 ...
Darling, no doubt, will try to convince them that he values their counsel. It's a tough sell: the very last thing that has been evident during the past year has been a willingness from Darling to listen to advice from the business world. I hope for ...
Alistair Maclean Darling (born November 28 , 1953 ) is a British politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer since June 28 , 2007 . He is Labour Party Member of Parliament for ...
TPT looks at a possible Labour leadership contest. Iâve put a sneaky £5 on Labour to win the Crewe and Natwich by-election as a hedge for my position on Gordon Brown leaving ...