Alistair Darling

Type: Person

Name: Alistair Darling

Title: Politician, Former Chancellor of the Exchequer (2007 - 2010) and MP for Edinburgh South West

Organization: The Labour Party (United Kingdom)

Date of Birth: 1953-11-28

Nationality: United Kingdom

Fact Sheet: Biography for Alistair Darling

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 1 reports

Round one throws up need for a Plan B

NIGEL Farage's comical flight from the mob may have grabbed the headlines this week but fear not convoluted arguments about the currency of an independent Scotland continued regardless.The setting was the STV studio in Glasgow where Nicola Sturgeon and ... [Published Herald Scotland - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland, Pro-British, United Kingdom

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated 15 hours ago - 1 reports

George Osborne

Cabinet awkward squad resisting George Osborne's demands for deep spending cuts leave Treasury with £11.5billion headache

Cabinet awkward squad resisting George Osborne's demands for deep spending cuts leave Treasury with £11.5billion headache Chancellor must find an extra £11.5billion in cuts for 2015-16Unprotected departments told to find up to 10% reductionsBut some angry ... [Published Mail Online UK - May 17 2013]

Entities: The Labour Party (United Kingdom), George Osborne, Ed Miliband, Liberal Democrats, Alistair Darling

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

David Cameron

RBS job cuts are a scandal

Unite national officer Dominic Hook's description of the latest jobs massacre at RBS as "brutal and irresponsible" says it all about a bank that is 81 per cent publicly owned but has no public allegiance. Hook points out that the banking industry, which ... [Published Morning Star Online - May 17 2013]

Entities: Small & Medium Enterprises, Layoffs, Stocks, David Cameron

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

The Labour Party (United Kingdom)

'Cracks showing' in Labour's anti-independence campaign after just 2 days

Mr Darling, who was conspicuously absent from Monday's launch, said at a press event in London on Tuesday that Labour can win power in Westminster without Scottish MPs if Scotland votes for independence, and he 'didn’t buy' the idea that there would be ... [Published NewsnetScotland.com - May 16 2013]

Entities: The Labour Party (United Kingdom), Scotland, Anas Sarwar, Alistair Darling, Westminster

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Boris Johnson

Alistair Darling: Help To Buy scheme risks London housing bubble

He also attacked David Cameron for delaying the crucial decision on how to solve the airport crisis until after the 2015 general election.Mr Darling said George Osborne’s policies to help home buyers get a start on the housing ladder risked backfiring ... [Published London Evening Standard - May 15 2013]

Entities: Alistair Darling, London, Estuary, Boris Johnson

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

HBOS plc

Darling attacks HBOS blame game

Former Labour chancellor Alistair Darling has warned against singling out disgraced Yorkshire bankers Sir James Crosby and Andy Hornby for blame over the collapse of HBOS amidst the ongoing "hue and cry" over the financial crash. Mr Darling, who was in ... [Published Yorkshire Post - May 15 2013]

Entities: Alistair Darling, HBOS plc, Knighthood, Financial Services Authority

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Alistair Darling

Darling says No campaign needs to win well to avoid 'neverendum'

Unionists must win a convincing victory in next year's independence referendum to settle the question for a generation, the leader of the No campaign has suggested.Alistair Darling said his side had to "win well" to head off calls for another poll, the ... [Published Herald Scotland - May 15 2013]

Entities: Alistair Darling, Scottish Labour Party, Referendum

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 3 reports

Alistair Darling backs income tax devolution

FORMER Chancellor Alistair Darling has backed devolving all of income tax to the Scottish Parliament "in principle" but warned that any further devolution needs a UK mandate.Speaking to the Press Gallery lunch, the man who is heading the Better Together ... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 14 2013]

Entities: Alistair Darling, Scotland, Scottish Parliament, United Kingdom

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 2 reports

Darling to coalition: stop dithering over new runway

Alistair Darling on plans to postpone decision on airport capacity in the south-east until Davies report is published in 2017: 'It is nonsense not to make up our minds.' Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian The coalition must move urgently to promote ... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 14 2013]

Entities: Alistair Darling, Coalition, Airport Capacity, David Levene

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Darling: We face a decade at the bottom

Former chancellor Alastair Darling tells journalists the UK faces 'bumping along at the bottom for an entire decade' if austerity policies continue. ... [Published PoliticsHome - May 14 2013]

Entities: Alistair Darling, United Kingdom

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Darling of the Lobby

The two Eds will have been following Alistair Darling’s Lobby lunch very closely this afternoon. Darling laid down the gauntlet to Balls, showing a fair amount of leg about a possible return: “At the moment I’m totally focused on the referendum. After ... [Published Guy Fawkes' blog - May 14 2013]

Entities: Alistair Darling, Gordon Brown, UKIP UK Independence Party, The Labour Party (United Kingdom)

First reported May 12 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 2 reports

Lesley Riddoch: Blast from the past, welcome or not

BRUISER Brown is back in business. Labour’s heavyweight enters the ring. Clunking fist smashes independence – every tabloid headline and weary cliché about the former prime minister is ready to roll as Gordon Brown prepares to stride the boards in support ... [Published The Scotsman - May 13 2013]

Entities: Gordon Brown, The Labour Party (United Kingdom), Lesley Riddoch

Quotes

Mr Darling said: "we won't know the baseline of the government's spending limits until the june spending review. but we will during the course of this year have to set out the parameters."

Cabinet awkward squad resisting George Osborne's demands for deep spending cuts leave Treasury wi ... [Published Mail Online UK - May 17 2013]

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Round one throws up need for a Plan B [Published Herald Scotland - 12 hours ago]
Cabinet awkward squad resisting George Osborne'... [Published Mail Online UK - May 17 2013]
Nigel Farage's fascist barrage \| Michael White [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 17 2013]
Labour?s next leader? Andy Burnham shows a bit ... [Published Telegraph - May 17 2013]
LETTER FROM SCOTLAND 17th May 2013 [Published Caledonian Mercury - May 17 2013]
RBS job cuts are a scandal [Published Morning Star Online - May 17 2013]
John Curtice: EU is not high on agenda [Published The Scotsman - May 17 2013]
'Cracks showing' in Labour's anti-independence ... [Published NewsnetScotland.com - May 16 2013]
EU referendum muddies the constitutional waters [Published Herald Scotland - May 16 2013]
Britishness, economics are referendum key - study [Published The Scotsman - May 16 2013]
David Cameron raises prospect of 1980s-style RB... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 15 2013]
SNP: No campaign arguments falling apart yet again [Published PoliticsHome - May 15 2013]
Evening Standard comment: Give London the power... [Published London Evening Standard - May 15 2013]
Alistair Darling: Help To Buy scheme risks Lond... [Published London Evening Standard - May 15 2013]
Evening Standard comment: Give us the power our... [Published London Evening Standard - May 15 2013]
Darling attacks HBOS blame game [Published Yorkshire Post - May 15 2013]
English Labour argument has no place in the ind... [Published Herald Scotland - May 15 2013]
Darling says No campaign needs to win well to a... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 15 2013]
Darling says No campaign needs to win well to a... [Published Herald Scotland - May 15 2013]
PM defends decision to bring forward EU referen... [Published Herald Scotland - May 15 2013]
British households worse off than 2005 [Published Press tv - May 15 2013]
Now is the time for the captains of industry to... [Published Telegraph - May 14 2013]
Alistair Darling backs income tax devolution [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 14 2013]
Former Chancellor Alistair Darling warns of a d... [Published The Independent - May 14 2013]
Alistair Darling backs income tax devolution [Published The Scotsman - May 14 2013]
Darling Says U.K. Housing Plan Risks Stoking Pr... [Published BusinessWeek - May 14 2013]
Darling to coalition: stop dithering over new r... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 14 2013]
Darling to coalition: stop dithering over new r... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 14 2013]
'I Maintain An Interest' [Published Huffington Post UK - May 14 2013]
16:19: Former British chancellor says austerity... [Published Eircom.net - May 14 2013]

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Darling of the Lobby [Published Guy Fawkes' blog - May 14 2013] The two Eds will have been following Alistair Darling’s Lobby lunch very closely this afternoon. Darling laid down the gauntlet to Balls, showing a fair amount of leg about a possible return: “At the moment I’m totally focused on the referendum. After ...
RBS can be privatised 'within a year' [Published Robert Peston BBC - May 03 2013] Royal Bank of Scotland, the giant ailing bank 82% owned by taxpayers, is on the mend - if not quite mended. For the first three months of the year, it made a profit at the operating level, before tax and after tax, which may be a unique occurrence since ...
Ed Miliband, gaffes and the art of the politica... [Published Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - Apr 30 2013] Nick Clegg was dull but avoided pitfalls, unlike Amber Rudd. Meanwhile, Miliband has hurt himself where he's vulnerable – the economy Nick Clegg was interviewed on Sunday sofa TV this weekend by Andrew Neil . Promising stuff, but political reporters ...
YouGov/Sun – CON 32, LAB 40, LD 11, UKIP 12 [Published UK Polling Report - Apr 26 2013] This morning’s YouGov poll for the Sun had topline figures of CON 32%, LAB 40%, LDEM 11%, UKIP 12%. For the time being at least we seem to have settled into a Labour lead of about 8 points in YouGov’s daily polling. To pick up on another couple of ...
Britain's austerity: The era of low expectation... [Published Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - Apr 25 2013] For all the politicians' wheel-spinning, the UK has basically gone nowhere in the past 18 months It's a mark of what low expectations are now brought to bear on the economy that Thursday's announcement that Britain didn't fall into a third recession, ...

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'Scots better off with Britain, nationalist sen... [Published Russia Today - YouTube - Dec 30 2012]
VIDEO: Scotland in EU plans based on 'deceit' [Published BBC News Video - Politics - Dec 14 2012]
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