Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling 01/02/2012

10:19 : Fred Goodwin's knighthood: Alistair Darling leads the backlash - Leading figures from the business world also voiced their disquiet, with Lord Digby Jones, the former head of the CBI, saying there was a 'faint whiff of the lynch mob' about the moveFormer chancellor Alistair Darling has led a ...

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Alistair Darling 11/01/2012

22:15 : Alistair Darling and Charles Kennedy lined up for Scottish pro-union drive - Labour and Liberal Democrats hope David Cameron will take lower profile as main parties plan focus on economyAlistair Darling, Charles Kennedy and the former Tory leader in Scotland, Annabel Goldie, are being lined up as the main faces of the pro-union ...

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Alistair Darling 08/11/2011

23:26 : We need to reform the Bank of England, not break it | Alistair Darling - Plans to make the Bank of England's governor all-powerful are wrong. He must be accountableIf the government has its way, the governor of the Bank of England will be handed unprecedented new powers to shape the British economy. ...

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Alistair Darling 31/10/2011

01:16 : Bank of England pressed to account for its handling of financial crisis - Treasury committee has published an unseen document prepared by the Bank for former chancellor Alistair Darling The Treasury select committee is on a collision course with the Bank of England over its refusal ...

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Alistair Darling 20/10/2011

06:39 : Darling rejects calls to delay auto-enrolment - Former Chancellor Alistair Darling has warned the coalition not to delay pensions auto-enrolment, following suggestions that economic problems could see the plan shelved for a year.

Source : citywire-co-uk

Alistair Darling 07/10/2011

22:57 : UK economy: easing in tougher times | Editorial - There should be no confusion about what is happening. These are desperate remedies for increasingly desperate problemsIn his recent memoirs Alistair Darling gives a lively account of the media and political frenzy which followed ...

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07:55 : Bank crisis: Happy anniversary, Darling - Three years on from the first banking rescue, orchestrated by then-chancellor Alistair Darling, talk of bailouts is now on the other side of the ChannelThree years ago this week, the bosses of the UK's biggest banks turned up to ...

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Alistair Darling 25/09/2011

14:18 : Darling: Action On Euro Crisis 'Imperative' - Alistair Darling has warned that the global economy faces a worse crisis than it did three years ago amid growing fears that Greece will default on its loans.

Source : news-sky-com

Alistair Darling 23/09/2011

22:59 : Darling: G20 Must Avert Financial 'Calamity' - Former chancellor Alistair Darling has told Sky News G20 finance ministers must act this weekend to address the economic crisis or face a financial "calamity".

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Alistair Darling 11/09/2011

19:57 : Alistair Darling: 'It was time to start worrying' - In these extracts from his memoir, former chancellor Alistair Darling recalls the day a private visit from Fred Goodwin awoke him to the full extent of the financial crisis – and what it was really like behind the doors of No 11A ...

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Alistair Darling 08/09/2011

22:52 : ALEX BRUMMER: Ringing changes at Old Lady - As Alistair Darling makes clear in his memoir, it took Northern Rock and the credit crunch to force change in the way the Bank of England operates under 'impish' governor ...

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Alistair Darling 06/09/2011

12:41 : Alistair Darling loses a small fortune after leaking of his memoirs - Sunday Times massively reduces fee for serialising former chancellor's memoirs after leaking of early draftAs the first chancellor in history who had to duck during a lively meeting with the prime minister, Alistair Darling is ...

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Alistair Darling 04/09/2011

20:36 : Darling's memoir shows the danger of big-man politics | Jackie Ashley - Gordon Brown's bullying was symptomatic of a wider cultural malaise – too many yes-men and too few honest debatesPrivately, Alistair Darling has a dry, sardonic line about Sir Fred Goodwin, the disgraced former boss of Royal ...

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20:13 : Alistair Darling accuses Bank of England Governor Mervyn King of 'being ... - Alistair Darling has accused Sir Mervyn King of meddling in politics and siding with the Tories, even suggesting that the Governor of the Bank of England might have leaked sensitive material ...

Source : telegraph-co-uk

15:32 : Darling reveals strains with King - Former Chancellor Alistair Darling felt Bank of England governor Sir Mervyn King did not fully grasp the UK's financial crisis, the MP writes in his memoirs.

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14:27 : BoE was slow to see nature of crisis - ex-minister - LONDON, Sept 4 (Reuters) - The Bank of England led by Mervyn King was slow to grasp the nature of the financial crisis in 2007, so much so that then-finance minister Alistair Darling wanted ...

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14:19 : Bank was slow to see nature of crisis - ex-minister - LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England led by Mervyn King was slow to grasp the nature of the financial crisis in 2007, so much so that then-chancellor Alistair Darling wanted to force it ...

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Alistair Darling 03/09/2011

23:21 : Labour must learn from their history or be doomed to repeat it | Andrew ... - Ed Miliband wants us to dismiss Alistair Darling's memoirs as irrelevant to today's debates. He's wrongWhen it comes to taking revenge, Alistair Darling is a politician who likes to serve the dish chilled. Whereas Tony Blair and ...

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20:00 : Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling 'were at odds from the start' - Former chancellor faced interference from the then PM, who wished to play down the economic risk from the banking crisisGordon Brown repeatedly pressured Alistair Darling to change his economic forecasts almost from the outset ...

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15:38 : Bank's King has regrets over bank run - Darling - LONDON (Reuters) - Bank of England Governor Mervyn King regrets failing to act swiftly enough to prevent a run on the Northern Rock bank, Britain's first in more than a century, then-chancellor ...

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15:15 : BoE's King has regrets over bank run - ex-minister - LONDON, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Bank of England Governor Mervyn King regrets failing to act swiftly enough to prevent a run on the Northern Rock bank, Britain's first in more than a century, then-finance ...

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Alistair Darling 02/09/2011

07:01 : Alistair Darling: Sir Fred acted like golfer as RBS collapsed - Leaked excerpts from the former chancellors' memoirs on his time in office highlight the problems he had in dealing with 'arrogant' bankers during the crisis.  

Source : citywire-co-uk

Alistair Darling 01/09/2011

12:48 : Alistair Darling hits out at 'arrogant and stupid' bankers - Extracts from memoir reveal former chancellor's reaction to 2008 financial crashFormer chancellor Alistair Darling has attacked "arrogant and stupid" bankers in his memoir of life in No 11 Downing Street.In extracts revealed by ...

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Alistair Darling 31/08/2011

23:23 : 'Prickly' Sir Mervyn King was nearly sacked by Labour government - The "prickly" relationship between Sir Mervyn King at the Bank of England, and Lord Turner, chairman of the FSA, was one reason regulators' failed to prevent the banking crisis, Alistair Darling ...

Source : telegraph-co-uk

13:44 : Alistair Darling memoir to reveal rifts with 'brutal' Gordon Brown - Former chancellor's book reportedly charts breakdown in relationship with Brown, and accuses former PM of trying to undermine him at the TreasuryTensions at the top of government and the Bank of England during the 2008 financial ...

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Alistair Darling 26/07/2011

13:40 : Geoffrey Spence appointed as new head of Infrastructure UK - Geoffrey Spence, a personal economic adviser to then chancellor Alistair Darling during the banking crisis, has been appointed to head up the Treasury body that oversees the UK's infrastructure plan.

Source : independent-co-uk

Alistair Darling 21/07/2011

09:51 : European debt crisis: Live - • Europe's leaders are gathering in Brussels for a crucial summit that could determine the future of the euro itself • Stock markets nervous, with FTSE 100 losing ground • Alistair Darling ...

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Alistair Darling 23/06/2011

10:30 : Nick Clegg's people's bank would be a test of taxpayers' patience - Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group share prices are well below a level that could produce profits if the Lib Dem leader's giveaway goes aheadIt's quite a conundrum: how to get rid of the stakes that Alistair ...

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Alistair Darling 31/05/2011

21:35 : The triple crunch won't be pretty. But will it banish our economic torpor? - There is now potential for not just one crisis but three: ATMs freeze up, the planet warms up and the lights go outOne Sunday in October 2008, Alistair Darling flew back from Washington to find Britain on the brink of banking meltdown. ...

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Alistair Darling 28/05/2011

23:17 : Alistair Darling backs Christine Lagarde for head of IMF - Former chancellor delivers snub to Gordon Brown with praise for FrenchwomanFormer chancellor Alistair Darling has endorsed France's Christine Lagarde as his first choice to head the International Monetary Fund, ...

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