Alistair Darling
Alistair Darling
Alistair Maclean Darling, Baron Darling of Roulanish, PCis a British Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliamentfrom 1987 to 2015, most recently for Edinburgh South West. He was the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labour Government from 2007 to 2010, and was one of only three people to have served in the Cabinet continuously from Labour's victory in 1997 until its defeat in 2010, the others being Gordon Brown and Jack Straw...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 November 1953
both cash couple fuel increase inflation last prices since terms
We have not put the inflation increase through for the last couple of years. Indeed, since 1999 fuel prices have come down both in real terms and cash terms, in terms of the duty.
strong cutting two
As I said, there are two approaches-first, a strong economy, stability and helping families or, secondly, the Tory cuts, the undermining of stability, and a return to the boom and bust of the 1990s.
scotland states courses
The question is not whether Scotland can survive as a separate state. Of course it could.
recovery cutting wrecks
Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.
economy choke global-economy
The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.
thinking years profound
The economic times we are facing... are arguably the worst they've been in 60 years. And I think it's going to be more profound and long-lasting than people thought.
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The key thing that went wrong was that a culture was allowed to develop where the relationship between what people did and what they got went way out of alignment, especially at the top end.
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We can't be in the business of carting fresh air around the country.
real goal finance
Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.
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On top of that, we have a healthy and stable economy and an end to the boom and bust that characterised the Tory years.
recovery cutting risk
Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.
doors world electricity
We were at the stage where in a very short period of time, one of the world's biggest banks would have to shut the door and switch off the electricity.