Faisal Islam
Darling calls for investigation into QE’s effects, before its expansion
Quantitative Easing: What on earth has happened to the £200bn?
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Darling: ‘Chaos and crisis’ under Brown
Former chancellor Alistair Darling’s memoirs reveal a brutal regime at No.10 under Gordon Brown, whose failure to acknowledge the scale of the economic crisis undermined Labour’s economic policy.
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Gary Gibbon
Brown ballot coup: what did Darling say to the PM?
Alistair Darling comes out in favour of Gordon Brown, though I hear Jack Straw and Harriet Harman may currently be in No. 10 and they still haven’t done the supportive TV statements that some thought were coming some time ago.
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Gary Gibbon
Brown challenge: awaiting Darling, Harman and Straw
Brown leadership challenge: would Geoff Hoon really fire off just one shot without choreographing a second one, blogs Gary Gibbon.
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Gary Gibbon
Darling: Lloyds’ directors knew about secret loans
The Chancellor’s statement to the Commons has calmed down the secret bank loans story, although Alistair Darling was summoned to speak by an increasingly active Speaker.
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Gary Gibbon
Darling to speak on bonuses and the City
Alistair Darling will today tell the conference here that he’s going to talk to the bankers and tell them to restrain themselves this Christmas.
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Faisal Islam
Darling’s speech: populism meets old fashioned politics
Populism does not come more de-robed than what we will get on bankers from Labour’s pre-election conference. It starts today with the Chancellors speech. There will be an elaboration of the bank bashing theme.
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Gary Gibbon
Brown, Darling, and public spending cuts
There will be more tomorrow from Alistair Darling on the government’s plans to outline cuts in public services, in the James Callaghan lecture in Cardiff. The Chancellor wanted to go further on balancing the books than No. 10 allowed him to at the Pre-Budget Report last autumn. Now he feels – after some lengthy conversations…
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Battle of personalities ahead of Scottish referendum
The first major debate in the Scottish independence campaign gets underway as First Minister Alex Salmond goes head-to-head with Better Together campaign leader Alistair Darling.
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Government insists HS2 still has cross party support
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin insists cross-party support remains for the HS2 high-speed rail project, despite concerns raised by Alistair Darling over its cost.
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Gary Gibbon
Normal folk and a sick musical joke
“Thank you. I’m not used to that.” Alistair Darling’s opening words of the “no” campaign as he entered the hall to loud applause. Imagine Alex Salmond saying that! And that’s a contrast this campaign hopes will work to their advantage.
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Scottish independence: ‘No’ campaign launches
The campaign to keep Scotland in the UK, headed by former Labour chancellor Alistair Darling, launched in Edinburgh today – but it faces an uphill funding battle.
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Faisal Islam
The Bankers’ threats to a Chancellor who thinks ‘they’ve got away with it’
Faisal Islam pores over Alistair Darling’s memoir and finds some extraordinary revelations about the banks which still have relevance today.
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Labour welcomes ‘realistic’ Miliband
Ed Miliband’s big speech as Labour leader wins praise from across the party, with shadow chancellor Alistair Darling telling Channel 4 News it was a “realistic and tough” speech.
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Rival chancellors agree on cuts but clash on taxes
Our online poll finds Vince Cable the winner as he joins Alistair Darling to condemn George Osborne’s proposed tax cuts in Channel 4’s ground-breaking Ask the Chancellors debate.
