Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling has claimed that Alex Salmond's campaign for Scottish independence has stalled at the starting line after a poll found that only a third of Scots want to leave the UK. The poll findings were released by the former chancellor a few hours ...  

FORMER chancellor Alistair Darling has hosted high-level meetings at his Edinburgh home about how the “No to Independence” campaign should proceed. Mr Darling, the MP for Edinburgh South West, admitted that he has had several long meetings with leading ...  

FORMER chancellor Alistair Darling has hosted high-level meetings at his Edinburgh home about how the “No to Independence” campaign should proceed. Mr Darling, the MP for Edinburgh South West, admitted that he has had several long meetings with leading ...  

The eurozone bail-out treaty should be "abandoned", former Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling has said. Mr Darling called the treaty, which aims to enforce budget discipline and prevent EU countries running up huge debts, "ridiculous ...  

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair may form part of a "call to arms" to keep the UK together and grow its economy, it has been suggested. Alistair Darling, who held several cabinet posts in the Blair administration before becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer ...  

  Alistair Darling is to spearhead a Save the Union campaign of all the pro-union parties in Scotland, according to a Mail on Sunday scoop. The former Chancellor has just confirmed the story on the Marr show, although the BBC website has still to catch up with it.The report says the plan was hatched in true Edinburgh [...]  

Anyone who thinks that Greece leaving the euro is the easy fix is kidding themselves, says former Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling. He explains how he would help turn the economic tide around Europe.  

With problems in Spain, Greece, Italy and on home soil the former Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling explains how he would help turn the economic tide around Europe.  

WE MUST learn from the past that austerity doesn’t work, writes Alistair Darling, and that we can only avoid economic disaster through European unity and growth measures Why can’t we ever learn the lessons of history? In the aftermath of the First ...  

The decision to strip Fred Goodwin of his knighthood following the near-collapse of the Royal Bank of Scotland was a "terrible mistake", Alistair Darling has said. Giving evidence to MPs on Tuesday morning, the former chancellor said there was "a bit of ...  

A decision by the Government to strip Fred Goodwin of his knighthood because of his role in running the Royal Bank of Scotland had “a bit of the lynch mob” about it, Alistair Darling suggested yesterday.Related StoriesEmboldened Miliband turns to Cruddas to draw up radical plan for general electionThe Department of Transport 'remodes' itself into comedyTrust in Tories slides as Osborne blames Europe for Britain's double dipTroubled work firm...  

The decision to strip Fred Goodwin of his knighthood will come to be seen as a "terrible mistake", former Chancellor Alistair Darling has claimed. The honour was removed from the former RBS boss in January on the advice of a Whitehall committee - a move ...  

Daily MailAlistair Darling: My 3-point plan to pull Europe (and us) back from the brinkDaily MailBy ALISTAIR DARLING It was on a Spanish holiday island, over the breakfast burritos, that the first dark clouds of the global financial crisis loomed for me, as the new Chancellor. The consequences of a collapse of the world banking systems, ...How Greece could leave the eurozone – in five difficult stepsThe GuardianEU central bankers ponder Greece...  

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 ...  

Mar. 21 - Analysis of UK Finance Minister George Osborne's 2012 budget, with former chancellor Alistair Darling.  

Britain became liable for a potential multi-billion contribution to the EU's bailout fund under a deal signed by former Chancellor Alistair Darling in the final days of the last Labour government. Following negotiations by Chancellor George Osborne ...  

Alistair Darling denies he's too 'knackered' to enjoy sex life with wife. Alistair Darling-style eyebrows officially in. Alistair Pereira surrenders before Mumbai Police. Alistair Pereira surrenders before Mumbai Police.  

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 ...  

Britain became liable for a potential multi-billion contribution to the EU's bailout fund under a deal signed by former Chancellor Alistair Darling in the final days of the last Labour government. Following negotiations by Chancellor George Osborne ...  

That is the political reality.” Former Chancellor Alistair Darling said he believed the pro-Union campaign would win the argument but warned Labour it must work with Liberal Democrats and Conservatives to get the message across. He told BBC Radio 4's ...  

The OBR's improved growth estimates for 2012 – albeit to a meagre 0.8 per cent – is the first upgrade of any kind by the fiscal watchdog in two years. In the 2009 Budget the then chancellor, Alistair Darling, was forecasting 3.5 per cent growth this year.  

The Special Commission on the Purposes of Economic Activity also heard from former chancellor Alistair Darling and representatives from the credit industry. The special commission was given the task of looking at where the economic system had gone wrong.  

If, on the other hand, those with their heads screwed on get together and decide that Bradford West is the beginning of the end of Ed Mili’s leadership, and if he is replaced perhaps by a competent and grown-up caretaker such as Alistair Darling… you ...  

In 2010, then Chancellor Alistair Darling promised tax incentives for developers, a pledge that he never delivered because Labour lost the next election. Bobby Kotick, chief executive of Activision Blizzard, the world's largest video games publisher ...  

Others complain that he will rarely listen to competing views. Alistair Darling called him “stubborn and exasperating”, which is quite something for a man who put up with Gordon Brown for most of his time in office. It was the early stages of the ...  

Labour's Chancellor, Alistair Darling, was committed to halving the deficit in one Parliament. His was a responsible and credible plan which commanded the confidence of the markets and when Labour left office our economy was growing and unemployment falling.  

Alistair Darling, former Labour chancellor, admitted all three parties managed to avoid debate on public spending at the last election because he did not conduct a similar long-term spending review. “If spending is fixed until 2017, people will ask where ...  

Mr Osborne is likely to justify abandoning the 50p top rate by pointing to an HM Revenue & Customs review showing it has failed to bring in the extra £2.7 billion forecast by predecessor Alistair Darling. Labour will pounce on the move as demonstrating ...  

In a long-awaited white paper released on December 15, transport secretary Alistair Darling provisionally approved the construction of a second runway at Stansted Airport in the 2011 to 2012 time frame and the addition of a fourth Heathrow runway in the ...  

ALISTAIR Darling has made the first major assault of the No campaign against independence by seeking to spike the guns of Alex Salmond's glittering Yes Scotland launch today. The former Labour Chancellor put himself in the vanguard of the attempt to keep ...  

The pro-union, anti-independence campaign, in which former Chancellor Alistair Darling has promised to play a major part, is expected to stage its launch next month. Some might think with decision day so far in the distance, this is all a bit premature.  

However, in the 2007 pre-Budget Report, the then chancellor Alistair Darling decided (without notice or consultation) to scrap taper relief. He inferred that it was too generous to partners in private equity firms who were able to pay tax at a lower rate ...  

He argued that it was important for politicians to represent the "public interest" and pointed to Alistair Darling's handling of the inquiry into BSkyB's stake in ITV. 2. Hunt is a "firewall" for Cameron Reprising a line of attack that has appeared in most ...  

Paragon, the independent buy-to-let mortgage specialist, has welcomed the discussion on housing policy and the role of the private rented sector led by former Labour Chancellor Alistair Darling at Wednesday’s BSA Conference. Nigel Terrington, chief ...  

Amongst the famous faces there to oversee the traditional event were former chancellor Alistair Darling MP and current Pentlands MSP Gordon MacDonald. A presentation was also made to long-serving Conservative councillor Alastair Paisley after he stood down ...  

He argued that it was important for politicians to represent the "public interest" and pointed to Alistair Darling's handling of the inquiry into BSkyB's stake in ITV. 2. Hunt is a "firewall" for Cameron Reprising a line of attack that has appeared in most ...  

I feel very optimistic about the future of this sector.” The keynote speaker former Chancellor Alistair Darling, who said that it was important to maintain a diverse set of financial institutions. He said he was pleased to hear that the Co-op was bidding ...  

Former Chancellor Alistair Darling has said that the time has come to recognise that "the economic policies that the eurozone are perusing will not work". Speaking to the Today programme's Evan Davis, he said that the Eurozone has signed up to a "daft ...  

I ask the about room temperature because the IMF also provided a forecast, in April 2010, of Alistair Darling's deficit cutting plans. They predicted that the UK would have a budget deficit of 5.2 per cent. So it's surprising Lagarde said today that "When ...  

He argued that it was important for politicians to represent the "public interest" and pointed to Alistair Darling's handling of the inquiry into BSkyB's stake in ITV. 2. Hunt is a "firewall" for Cameron Reprising a line of attack that has appeared in most ...  

It came after former chancellor Alistair Darling warned that foreign aid would have to be sent to starving Greeks if the country left the single currency and lost its bailout money. City analyst David Buik said: ‘If Greece leaves the euro, a drachma ...  

"It has now become a symbol of how he has become a prisoner of the right and is unable to change his party." Former chancellor Alistair Darling signed the UK up to support a £750bn euro bailout scheme during coalition negotiations after the 2010 general election.  

When banks were unable to pay their debts and were effectively bailed out by the last Labour government, then chancellor Alistair Darling set aside £1.3 trillion to rescue a sector the assets of which he could have bought at knockdown prices to set up a ...  

And it's been two years — two and a half years now — in the making, this crisis. I hope the action will be taken." Alistair Darling, who was in charge of Britain's Treasury in 2008, said the impact could be severe. "A Greek exit could start a fire that ...  

The text has already been signed by 123 MPs from across parties - including ex-Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy, Labour's David Blunkett and Alistair Darling, and senior Conservatives such as Graham Brady and John Redwood. Davis said the issue was ...  

In 2008, the then chancellor Alistair Darling promised that in future senior Bank jobs would be filled through an open selection process. However, Treasury sources have made clear that the coalition does not consider itself to be bound by Darling's pledge.  

A majority of Scots opposes independence from the United Kingdom, a new poll has shown. The survey, released by former Chancellor Alistair Darling ahead of Friday’s launch of the pro-independence campaign, found that a third of voters supported separation.  

Former Labour Chancellor Alistair Darling, right, warned the Greek situation is now ‘very, very dangerous’ and compared it to the collapse of state-owned banks in 2008. Speaking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday, he said: ‘Last week Greece ...  

Former Labour Chancellor Alistair Darling, right, warned the Greek situation is now ‘very, very dangerous’ and compared it to the collapse of state-owned banks in 2008. Speaking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday, he said: ‘Last week Greece ...  

The report criticises former chancellor Alistair Darling, for failing to look at the full consequences to the taxpayer. After nationalisation, the bank was split into a mortgage lending and savings arm, Northern Rock PLC, and a "bad bank" of sub ...  

Alistair Darling, former Labour chancellor, said: “I know Mark Carney: he would be a very credible candidate and has a very good international representation.” Mr Darling said that while Paul Tucker, the Bank’s deputy governor, was also a strong ...  

And a further 10 per cent were “don’t knows”. Ex-chancellor Alistair Darling, who will be a figurehead in the pro-UK campaign, said: “The Nationalists are entitled to their view but the majority of us simply aren’t buying the independence policy ...  

Would he still cut from April as Alistair Darling had promised, they ask? Mr Osborne will be able to rebut Labour claims that the Coalition’s austerity drive is to blame for the stalling economy, because the planned cuts have yet to come on stream.  

In March 2008, Alistair Darling was criticised in some circles for the Budget by a media campaign spread by a social networking site. James Hughes, the landlord of Utopia Pub in Edinburgh, symbolically barred Darling from his pub, and a passing ...  

The Global Decline of Labor Rights “If you push countries to a situation where they have no hope and no light at the end of the tunnel … people will turn to simplistic and sometimes downright nasty solutions,” Alistair Darling, Britain’s former ...  

The "beer duty escalator" means alcohol duty will increase by 2% above inflation each year until 2015. Back in March 2010, Alistair Darling said tobacco duty would rise by 2% in real terms until 2014, a plan Osborne has not changed. These allow ...  

Vince Cable and Alistair Darling traded their favourite bits of Keynes and state intervention was firmly back in fashion. Well, you can rip up those fine, fevered promises and stick them in the bin. That at least is the big message out of last ...  

Vince Cable and Alistair Darling traded their favourite bits of Keynes and state intervention was firmly back in fashion. Well, you can rip up those fine, fevered promises and stick them in the bin. That at least is the big message out of last ...  

But where? There is growing speculation that the government will not actually state a location (unlike Alistair Darling when he published the last Aviation White Paper and suggested a second runway at Stansted). Perhaps it will instead be left ...  

The fact is that a bank run – visible or invisible – can happen very suddenly. As Alistair Darling said on Sky News just yesterday: “From my own experience these things can blow up within hours”. Just look at this chart from the National Audit ...  

Former Chancellor Alistair Darling said Whitehall honours committees should stop handing out honours to the “usual “suspects”. He told the Public Administration Select Committee on Tuesday that he was against “quotas” which awarded a familiar ...  

The move is effective 6 April and will likely prove controversial as since the existing £30,000 levy was announced -  by then-chancellor Alistair Darling in 2008 - the number of individuals registered as non-domiciled has fallen.  The number ...  

Britain’s former Labour Chancellor Alistair Darling has said former Prime Minister Tony Blair may return to UK domestic policies as part of a “call to arms.” Darling said Blair has “a lot to contribute and I hope he’ll contribute more in the ...  

Relations between King and the then chancellor, Alistair Darling, deteriorated badly during the first year of the global financial crisis. Darling reappointed King only because he feared the fallout in the markets at a particularly fraught time.  

Osborne’s Labour Party predecessor, Alistair Darling, who served during the crisis, said the U.K. central bank needed a “thorough shakeup” and “we would be missing a trick if we didn’t look as widely as possible,” The Times of London ...  

by 2015 – a target which Alistair Darling thought too steep in 2010 and still does. It's that self-defeating austerity again; squeeze too much money out of the public sector at a time when the private sector, personal and corporate ...  

Our correspondent said the reshuffle was very limited and Mr Miliband had resisted the temptation to bring back some senior figures such as Alan Johnson, Alistair Darling and his brother David Miliband.  

Before the Coalition government granted tax relief, Labour chancellor Alistair Darling had announced similar plans in March 2010. It was later scrapped by Osborne but resurrected this year.