Alistair Darling

“The Bank [of Scotland] had tried to sell itself to a company run by TV evangelist Pat Robertson. That deal fell through,…

— Alistair Darling

The question is not whether Scotland can survive as a separate state. Of course it could.

— Alistair Darling

As I said, there are two approaches-first, a strong economy, stability and helping families or, secondly, the Tory cuts, the undermining of…

— Alistair Darling

We were at the stage where in a very short period of time, one of the world's biggest banks would have to…

— Alistair Darling

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.

— Alistair Darling

The economic times we are facing... are arguably the worst they've been in 60 years. And I think it's going to be…

— Alistair Darling

Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.

— Alistair Darling

Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.

— Alistair Darling

The key thing that went wrong was that a culture was allowed to develop where the relationship between what people did and…

— Alistair Darling

On top of that, we have a healthy and stable economy and an end to the boom and bust that characterised the…

— Alistair Darling

“I told the Icelandic prime minister that it appeared that large sums of money had been taken out of the UK from…

— Alistair Darling

Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.

— Alistair Darling

We can't be in the business of carting fresh air around the country.

— Alistair Darling