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
rest severe
already more severe than the rest of the country.
develop forward looking national practical pricing problems road solutions support
We are looking forward to working with these authorities to develop practical solutions to congestion problems and support the development of a national road pricing scheme,
recovery cutting risk
Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.
keys people culture
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.
recovery cutting wrecks
Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.
scotland states courses
The question is not whether Scotland can survive as a separate state. Of course it could.