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Darling warns of economic crisis

BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Chancellor Alistair Darling says the UK is facing the worst economic crisis in 60 years.

Darling warns of economic crisis

Afrigator (Free subscription) | yesterday

Darling comments centre of attention

BBC News (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Alistair Darling's exclusive interview in the Guardian is big enough for the Daily Telegraph to lead with too.

Hard times ahead warns Darling

Channel 4 (Free subscription) | yesterday

Hard times ahead warns Darling

Darling warns of economic crisis

ziomal.biz (Free subscription) | yesterday

Chancellor Alistair Darling says the UK is facing the worst economic crisis in 60 years and warns of a "profound" downturn.

[Blogs] The Darling Thread

Labourhome (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

What do readers think about this interview in The Guardian with the usually-reticent Alistair Darling?

Are you feeling alright, Darling?

Letters From A Tory (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

What Darling said at the Budget earlier this year: “…my forecast shows the UK economy will continue to grow throughout this period of global uncertainty” “…the reforms we have made since 1997 – independence for the Bank of England and tough fiscal rules – mean that Britain is now more resilient and better prepared to deal with [...]

Downturn deeper than expected, says Darling

Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's economic downturn is likely to be deeper and last longer than expected and could be the worst for 60 years, Chancelllor Alistair Darling said on Saturday.

Is Darling doomed? Has he lost his mind?

Welsh Ramblings (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

Early reports of an interview in the Guardian with Alistair Darling have genuinely shocked me. Some people argue that newspapers are nothing more than chip paper the day after they are printed, but this has the potential to be the downfall of the Chancellor. This is more than your average interview. It is a sign of a government that has lost control and a Chancellor who has surely lost his mind....

Refreshingly frank or recklessly foolish? Darling paints picture of economic gloom

Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | yesterday

The Guardian has an exclusive interview in Saturday’s magazine with the Chancellor, Alistair Darling: Britain is facing “arguably the worst” economic downturn in 60 years which will be “more profound and long-lasting” than people had expected, Alistair Darling, the chancellor, has told the Guardian today. In the government’s gravest assessment of the economy, which follows a warning [...]...

Economy at 60-year low, says Darling. And it will get worse

The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday

Economic downturn will be 'more profound and long-lasting' than people had expected, says chancellor Alistair Darling

Brown and Darling driving British business abroad

Horgan (Free subscription) | yesterday

Under Tony Blair Labour understood the importance of thriving business to Britain. Business provides jobs and brings in tax revenue and so any government of any stripe needs commerce to meet any other objectives that it may have. Brown and Darling have thrown that all away with incoherent tax policies that squeeze multinational businesses, presumably in some effort to placate the brothers in...

Darling: Apocalypse Now

Liberal Burblings (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Vince Cable wittily sums up Alistair Darling's dire predictions about the economy: I worry about the government lurching from one extreme to the other. Until very recently there was no problem, there was a state of denial, Britain was the strongest country in the western world, any problems we had were from overseas. Now suddenly we've lurched into Apocalypse Now, the return of the Great

Darling's Bleak Economic Warning

Sky News (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Britain's economic downturn will be "more profound and long-lasting" than expected amid the worst global economic conditions for 60 years, Alistair Darling has warned.

Darling admits economy is tanking

Horgan (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

... fact the worst it has been for 60 years, which means since the great depression. At least Alastair Darling has said this, in an interview with the Guardian . So, this raises a question: is this a change of language from the government? Or is it just a change of language from the Chancellor in contrast to the claims from his boss that things aren't so bad? This story broke this evening in...