To The Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Right Honourable Alistair Darling M.P. From HM Treasury Re Budget Dear Sir, It is my unfortunate position to discuss the fiscal deficit in the government account. There has been a failure to sell more Gilts as the financial markets now have more faith in the Republic of Paraguay than the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to repay our debts...

Alistair Darling, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, made no secret of his delight when, in 1984, he joined the hallowed ranks of the Faculty of Advocates.

25 April 2008     The Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP Chancellor of the Exchequer HM Treasury 1 Horseguards Road London SW1A 2HQ     Dear Alistair   I`d appreciate an urgent response to some of the questions which have arisen in the ten percent tax saga plus a comment on the processes. ...

CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling will lay bare the dire state of the UK finances today, with a Budget featuring tax rises, huge public borrowing and plans to sell off assets including the Royal Mint.

Alistair Darling the Chancellor of the Exchequer today promised a Budget to speed economic recovery by protecting jobs and spreading prosperity.

CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling will lay bare the dire state of the UK finances today, with a Budget featuring tax rises, huge public borrowing and plans to sell off assets including the Royal Mint.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling has asserted today that banks are better run in the private sector. The comments box is wide open for anyone who would like to offer a single coherent argument or shred of evidence in support of this view.

Lib Dem Treasury spokesman, who called for Alistair Darling to step down, says there are no short cuts to chancellor's job The Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, Vince Cable, told a disappointed Hay festival crowd today that he did not want to be chancellor of the exchequer under a Labour government, despite calling on Alistair Darling to step down. Asked if he would step in if Gordon Brown...

It turns out Ed Miliband did recruit Alan Johnson as shadow Chancellor to sell his own vision of how the deficit should be dealt with. The plans, revealed in the Observer today, show that Labour will be closer to Ed Balls' plans than that by Alistair Darling. In fact they go even further.

FORMER Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling has admitted that he vetoed a deal two years ago for Barclays to buy the troubled US investment bank Lehman Brothers, whos