Phil Slocombe (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last week I blogged about how an effigy of Alistair Darling looked likely to be hanged today in York. And so it was. Visitors to York Dungeon were asked all last week who they would like to see hanged for highway robbery: the Chancellor or a certain Mr Turpin who is better known for that particular activity.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
Alistair Darling will today urge European bureaucrats to tear up the key banking regulations that give powers to ratings agencies, in the latest blow for the embattled financial institutions.
The Party Blog (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Full coverage of UK politics Last week I blogged about how an effigy of Alistair Darling looked likely to be hanged today in York. And so it was. Visitors to York Dungeon ...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Alistair Darling was given six months by his fellow European Union finance ministers yesterday to bring Britain's budget deficit below the 3 per cent of gross domestic product required by the single currency rule book.
Loans and Finance (Free subscription) | yesterday
Alistair Darling revealed last week that the Government was planning to increase its guarantee on depositors' savings from £35K to £50K. However, banks have rounded on the plans saying that they are unrealistic. The plans would see taxpayers initially foot the bill for paying out deposits, within the first week of a bank going under. The cost would then be recouped by selling the failed bank's assets,...
Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Europe's chief financial regulator will tell its finance ministers today that he intends to table legislation in the autumn to regulate the activities of credit-rating agencies. The move by Charlie McCreevy, the European Internal Markets Commissioner, comes as Alistair Darling is expected to press for Brussels to begin a more wide-ranging review of the role of ratings agencies in Europe's broader system...
Not a sheep (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Guido reports that "The Indy this morning has an interview with Andrew Marr, this passage made Guido laugh: "I can be exceedingly aggressive when I want to be," he says, claiming that encounters with Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling on his Sunday morning BBC1 programme, The Andrew Marr Show, "were as aggressive as any interview you will have seen for a long time"." I felt compelled to comment on Guido's...
Loans and Finance (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
The Treasury's accounts are in such a shambles that the National Audit Office (NAO) won't sign them off. The NAO are less that happy with the government's handling of the nationalisation of Northern Rock, and have had a major row with Alistair Darling over it. The NAO is concerned about the way that the bank is being treated on the Treasury's books. Therefore the Treasury's annual report has been published...
Guy Fawkes' blog (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
The Indy this morning has an interview with Andrew Marr, this passage made Guido laugh: "I can be exceedingly aggressive when I want to be," he says, claiming that encounters with Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling on his Sunday morning BBC1 programme, The Andrew Marr Show, "were as aggressive as any interview you will have seen for a long time". Yes we all remember that aggression when a nervous Gordon...
The Lone Voice (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
The Times reports that: "Britain’s spending watchdog is refusing to approve the Treasury’s accounts, compounding a miserable year for Alistair Darling, the Chancellor of the Exchequer.... Mr Darling is fighting a bruising battle with the National Audit Office (NAO), which is unhappy at the way that the nationalisation of Northern Rock is being treated in the Treasury’s books. The annual report from...
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Chancellor Alistair Darling faced further embarrassment today after Britain's spending watchdog refused to approve the Treasury's accounts.
Daily Mail on Sunday (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Chancellor Alistair Darling faced further embarrassment today after Britain's spending watchdog refused to approve the Treasury's accounts.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Alistair Darling, the chancellor, has said he wants to help first-time buyers get on the housing ladder by introducing greater tax breaks towards saving for a house, says Harry Wallop, Consumer Affairs Correspondent.
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
TO THAT question of enduring resonance: What Is To Be Done? Chancellor Alistair Darling already has the stare of a man condemned. We are hurtling towards recession, its length
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Alistair Darling dismisses speculation that Britain is poised for its first recession since the 1990s
