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4 days ago · Alistair Darling, the then transport secretary, thought the project could be built by 2020, but its progress was suffocated by political and climate concerns.. David Cameron’s Conservative party ...
4 days ago · In 2007 Balls was considered to be given the post of Chancellor, but the role was given to Alistair Darling. In October 2008, Balls announced that the government had decided to scrap SAT tests for 14-year-olds, a move which was broadly welcomed by teachers, parent groups and opposition MPs.
1 day ago · It may be an inconvenient truth but Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling managed to sort out the world banking crisis, when several of the world bank CEOs refused to believe the severity of the ...
4 days ago · He also paid tribute to the SNP's Joanna Cherry and the late Labour Chancellor Alistair Darling, his two predecessors as MP for Edinburgh South West.
1 day ago · The first Blair ministry lasted from May 1997 to June 2001. After eighteen years in opposition, Labour ousted the Conservatives at the May 1997 election with a 179-seat majority. The Prime Minister, Tony Blair, who turned 44 years old days after leading Labour to victory, was the youngest Prime Minister of the twentieth century.
2 days ago · Sam White, Starmer’s former chief of staff and a former Alistair Darling adviser, told me how unlikely it ever was that “in the first test of whether she’s a serious Chancellor, Rachel Reeves was going to pull off her mask Mission Impossible-style and reveal she was in fact Liz Truss, pretending there’s money when there isn’t.”
1 day ago · This leaves any wiggle room from council tax funding and other domestic property charges as potential fiscal pivots. Even without re-examining the nation’s accounts, it’s evident that chancellor Rachel Reeves will be confronting a set of books that will make public spending choices tougher than anything Gordon Brown or the late Alistair Darling had to face.
