Would this be Alistair Darling’s advice to George Osborne?
Faisal Islam imagines what a letter between Alistair Darling and George Osborne could look like.
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We spoke to one of Alistair Darling’s close friends, Catherine MacLeod, who was a special adviser to the then chancellor during the financial crisis in 2008. We began by asking for a sense of the loss she and the family felt.
Politicians from all parties have paid tribute to the former Labour chancellor Alistair Darling – who has died three years after being diagnosed with cancer.
Faisal Islam imagines what a letter between Alistair Darling and George Osborne could look like.
What has happened to the giant pothole in the public finances? The answer is that some of it, more than expected, has been filled in, but not by Mr Darling, writes Faisal Islam.
If Gordon Brown does want to move Alistair Darling out of No. 11 his task just got a lot easier. Gordon Brown’s defence of Alistair Darling’s position over the £1,004 service charge on a flat in Lambeth sounded equivocal at 7am in TV interviews. The PM was fully standing by his “friend” by the time…
Better Together campaign leader Alistair Darling says market volatility is a “stark warning” of what could happen to the economy if Scots vote for independence next week.
Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond wins a convincing 71 per cent of the vote in a snap poll after the second televised debate against Alistair Darling on Scottish independence.
It’s ding ding, round two in the Scottish independence debate. Will the leaders of the Yes and No camps fail the FactCheck test?
As SNP leader Alex Salmond visits the home of the declaration of Arbroath, he needs urgently to narrow the gap in polls between the yes and no voters on Scottish independence.
The headlines say Alistair Darling drew first blood in his Scottish independence debate against Alex Salmond, but what do the Scottish public think? Ciaran Jenkins went to find out.
After a fiery, two hour debate ahead of the Scottish independence referendum, a snap poll puts Alistair Darling slightly in the lead ahead of First Minister Alex Salmond.
Chair of the Better Together campaign, Alistair Darling, tells Jon Snow that a currency union between an independent Scotland and the rest of the UK ‘”will not work” and “will not happen”.
With the Scottish referendum one year away, former chancellor Alistair Darling argues against independence and says the UK works because people from across the union pool their resources.
Former Chancellor Alistair Darling has branded as “tawdry” the stripping of ex-RBS boss Fred Goodwin’s knighthood and suggested the banker had been singled out.
As finance ministers discuss the economic and financial crisis, former chancellor Alistair Darling tells Channel 4 News leadership is needed to avert another recession.