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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 ...
May 21, 2012 at 03:51 | Source: scotsman.com
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 ...
May 20, 2012 at 11:09 | Source: Stv.tv
At Holyrood yesterday Mr Salmond mentioned the name of Alistair Darling, the former chancellor, no fewer than four times in the course of an exchange lasting a bit less than 14 minutes with Johann Lamont, the Scottish Labour leader. The latter was trying ...
May 24, 2012 at 21:20 | Source: Daily Telegraph
Senior aides to David Cameron took part in a secret all-party ‘council of war’ at former Labour Chancellor Alistair Darling’s Edinburgh home in a bid to stop Scottish independence. No 10 director of political strategy Andrew Cooper and former ...
May 19, 2012 at 22:09 | Source: Daily Mail
An opinion poll published by Alistair Darling, the former Chancellor, showed only 33 per cent of voters in Scotland want independence and 57 per cent are opposed. In his first intervention since becoming leader of the pro-UK campaign, Mr Darling said the p ...
May 25, 2012 at 05:34 | Source: Daily Telegraph
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 ...
May 16, 2012 at 23:02 | Source: scotsman.com
Anyone who thinks that Greece leaving the euro is the easy fix is kidding themselves, says former Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling. As talk grows of Greece bowing out of the eurozone, he explains how he would help turn the economic tide around ...
May 13, 2012 at 14:23 | Source: This is Money
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 Network ...
May 13, 2012 at 05:48 | Source: Worldnews.com
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 ...
May 15, 2012 at 11:58 | Source: huffingtonpost.co.uk
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 ...
May 20, 2012 at 17:57 | Source: Presstv