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Alistair Darling
Labour MP for Edinburgh South West
Biography
Alistair Darling, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer between 2007 and 2010 after a decade in the Labour cabinet, stepped down from front bench politics in the wake of the Labour leadership election in September 2010.
Image: Alistair Darling PA
Alistair Darling's connections
Interestingly enough...
Charlie Whelan reportedly unleashed "forces of hell" on Alistair Darling - source: channel4.com/news
Alistair Darling is the great-nephew of Conservative MP Sir William Darling - source: Wikipedia
Alistair Darling grew up in the constituency of Gordon Brown - source: Wikipedia
Alistair Darling is a fan of Leonard Cohen - source: timesonline.co.uk
Alistair Darling is a fan of Chris Martin - source: timesonline.co.uk
Alistair Darling was reportedly a member of the International Marxist Group - source: wsws.org
George Galloway has described the apparent 'Trotskyite' past of Alistair Darling - source: blogs.dailyrecord.co.uk
Damian McBride unleashed 'the forces of hell' on Alistair Darling - source: timesonline.co.uk
Alistair Darling was friends with Ron Brown - source: telegraph.co.uk
David Miliband was supported in the leadership contest by Alistair Darling - source: Telegraph.co.uk
CV
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- Sebastian Grigg was one of a team of advisers drafted in by the Treasury to advise on its bank bailout strategy. - source: Financial Times 14 October 2009
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- Darling was made opposition home affairs spokesman in 1988, serving on the frontbench with Neil Kinnock. After the 1992 general election he became a spokesman on treasury affairs. - source: Wikipedia
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- Alistair Darling held a range of posts in the Blair administration. He entered the cabinet in 1997 as chief secretary to the treasury. He then moved through the Department for Work and Pensions and in 2002 replaced Stephen Byers as transport secretary. - source: Wikipedia
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- Darling was given a brief to "take the department out of the headlines" after the resignation of Stephen Byers from the Department of Transport in 2002. - source: Wikipedia
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- Number 11 Downing Street is the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. - source: hm-treasury.gov.uk
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- Then-Chancellor Alistair Darling had just six weeks to find a replacement for the Bank of England's deputy governor Rachel Lomax. He chose Bean over the Treasury's favourite Paul Tucker. - source: Timesonline
Alistair Darling on the web
Education
- Loretto is one of Scotland's leading independent private boarding schools. Set in 85 acres of leafy campus just outside Edinburgh, Loretto is a boarding school which also takes day pupils. - source: News Headlines
- Alistair Darling studied law at Aberdeen. He then worked as a solicitor in Edinburgh before being called to the Scottish Bar and admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1984. - source: politics.co.uk
- Both Jowell and Darling attended the University of Aberdeen, in the late 1970s and early 1980s respectively, before entering politics and rising through Labour's ranks. - source: Wikipedia
Stories
View all stories (3)Ask the Chancellors: the only debate that really matters
It's the economy, stupid. Channel 4 asks the chancellors
Will the economy decide your vote? As the clock ticks down to election 2010, Alistair Darling, George Osborne and Vince Cable went head-to-head in Channel 4's Ask the Chancellors.
Labour leadership: take five
Who's backing who in Labour's leadership poll?
Ahead of Labour's leadership ballot, Who Knows Who looks at the supporters and allies of the five candidates.
Alistair Darling: a 'Trot' with a Tory uncle?
Who knows Darling?
Who Knows Who takes a look at Alistair Darling's career, from student politico to chancellor.
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