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Alistair Darling

December 2023

  • Keir Starmer (right) and the Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sarwar (second right), were among those attending the service

    Senior figures from across UK politics gather to remember Alistair Darling

  • Financial crisis anniversary<br>File photo dated 15/04/16 of former chancellor Lord Darling, who said the world is a "much darker place" due to the global financial crisis which began a decade ago. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Sunday September 10, 2017. See PA story POLITICS Crash. Photo credit should read: Philip Toscano/PA Wire

    Letter: Alistair Darling obituary

  • Alistair Darling

    Calm, logical, decisive - Alistair Darling was the perfect crisis chancellor

  • Rachel Reeves giving a speech on stage in front of a giant union flag projection

    Rachel Reeves: Alistair Darling warned me not to fall into ‘Tory traps’

  • Lord Darling of Roulanish obituary

  • Gordon Brown: any Labour briefings against Alistair Darling were unfair

30 November 2023

  • Alistair Darling, former Labour chancellor, seen at his home in Edinburgh

    Business live
    Starmer, Brown, Sunak and Hunt lead tributes to former chancellor Alistair Darling – as it happened

    Alistair Darling was ‘one of the great chancellors’, says Jeremy Hunt, while Gordon Brown remembers ‘a statesman of unimpeachable integrity’
  • Alistair Darling poses for a photo in front of a mantelpiece

    Former chancellor Alistair Darling dies aged 70

    Politicians from across spectrum pay tribute, with Gordon Brown describing him as ‘a statesman of unimpeachable integrity’

    • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
      Matt Hancock ‘was not told about eat out to help out scheme until day it was announced’ – as it happened

    • Alistair Darling was a rare exception: a politician who quietly got things done

      Gordon Brown

    • How underrated chancellor Alistair Darling helped weather financial crisis

August 2022

  • Alastair Darling

    Bold action needed now on energy bills, says Alistair Darling

    Chancellor during 2008 banking collapse says ‘fiddling around with small measures’ will not be enough

September 2021

  • Labour leader Keir Starmer addresses the media before the party conference

    Old faces of New Labour in Keir Starmer’s inner circle

    The party leader has drafted in aides who worked for ex-prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown

April 2021

  • Boris Johnson

    Senior Tories urge PM to come clean on funding of Downing Street refurb

  • Alistair Darling in 2014.

    Alistair Darling turned down offer to sit on trust to refurbish No 10

October 2020

  • A worker cleans graffiti calling for ‘full furlough’ in Piccadilly Gardens, central Manchester

    Mervyn King says Covid furlough scheme may be needed throughout 2021

    Former Bank of England governor says government should ditch spending limits until crisis passes

August 2020

  • William Keegan

    Rishi Sunak is riding high, but history shows No 11 can be a dangerous address

    William Keegan
    From Barber’s boom to Gordon Brown’s financial crisis, Britain’s current chancellor is treading a well-worn and precarious path

July 2020

  • Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling during the financial crisis in 2008.

    Barclays: Qataris spoke to Gordon Brown to 'defuse 2008 bailout pressure'

    Court hears Qatari leader spoke to then PM as bank was pressurised to accept government money

June 2020

  • Alistair Darling

    Former chancellor Alistair Darling calls for emergency VAT cut

  • George Osborne, Alistair Darling and Philip Hammond giving evidence online to the Treasury committee on Wednesday.

    Prepare for 1980s-level unemployment, former chancellors warn

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