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...He was respected on all sides of politics, with Osborne saying on Thursday: “The thing about Alistair Darling is people said nice things about Alistair to his face when he was alive, and they say nice things...
...Gordon Brown, Labour prime minister during the financial crash, said: “I am deeply saddened by the death of Alistair Darling. I, like many, relied on his wisdom, calmness in a crisis and his humour.”...
...He would shave off both his Trotskyism and his beard, the former through conviction, the latter on instruction from Gordon Brown in 1997....
...Berkshire hit back in November, accusing the founder’s son Jimmy Haslam III, co-owner of the Cleveland Browns football team, of seeking to suborn executives at Pilot into inflating the company’s profits,...
...And as Jeremy Hunt recognised, Alistair Darling was one of the great chancellors, who will be remembered as doing the right thing for the country at a time of significant turmoil....
...The then Labour prime minister pushed ahead regardless of concerns but the policy was ultimately shelved by his successor Gordon Brown before being scrapped by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat ruling coalition...
...Alistair Darling, Brown’s successor, told the Financial Times the Labour government felt vindicated in that approach as it meant that during the financial crisis in 2008 the UK had less debt to roll over...
...Anything Gordon Brown can do, Rishi Sunak can do better?...
...Later in opposition, leading Conservatives complained that the BBC was being “taken over” by Labour “cronies” when Gavyn Davies, a friend of the then chancellor Gordon Brown, took the chair....
...all through the financial crisis, in the end actually falling out with Gordon Brown, but still having the sort of strength of character to stand up to him when Brown wanted to replace him, probably with...
...figures Results: Adevinta Q2, Broadcom Q3, Campbell Soup Q4, Dollar General Q2, Grafton H1, Lululemon Athletica Q2, Pernod Ricard FY, UBS Q2 Friday Dirk Hahn becomes Hays chief executive, succeeding Alistair...
...(The Guardian) Alistair Gray, law courts correspondent + Jonathan Eley, acting longform editor (duplicate entry) Inside Rupert Murdoch’s Succession Drama (Vanity Fair) Alistair — This was pretty great...
...In June 2009, months after Mandelson had returned to government to prop up the beleaguered administration of Blair’s successor Gordon Brown, he was given the additional title of “first secretary of state...
...Not since Gordon Brown handed over the Treasury to Alistair Darling in 2007 has a prime minister had such a detailed knowledge of the policy options available to a chancellor at a fiscal event....
...Taken together, they address “nearly all the concerns previously raised” about corporate governance, said Wayne Brown, analyst at Liberum....
...When Tony Blair and Gordon Brown won in 1997, they accepted the fiscal trajectory which had been laid out by Ken Clarke....
...In 2008, Gordon Brown’s government cut VAT by 2.5 percentage points to 15 per cent in an effort to lower prices temporarily and raise spending when demand and inflation were low....
...Alistair Brown, policy manager at the Museums Association, said museums and galleries had become far more conscious of the impact of their activities on climate change, and this agenda had dovetailed with...
...Additional reporting by Alistair Gray in London...
...For this purpose he has managed to interview Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling, George Osborne and Philip Hammond. The story is fascinating, since it covers so many challenges and changes....
...“The stuff we are building, and about to build, today is from Gordon Brown’s era,” said Anderson, referring to the Labour prime minister defeated at the 2010 general election....
...“I named this room after him,” he explains as we look inside, before moving on to one of the two dining rooms, this one named after his uncle Alistair....
...His strategy chief is Deborah Mattinson, Brown’s pollster; his director of communications, Matthew Doyle, is another former Blair aide; Sam White, his chief of staff, was special adviser to Alistair Darling...
...He has appeared on past podiums, often behind his brother Alistair. “It feels absolutely amazing. It’s my third Olympics and I’ve finally got gold.”...
...Because if we think back to the last chancellor who became prime minister and Gordon Brown, the dynamic between him and Alistair Darling was obviously . . . Chris GilesTerrible....
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