Two interesting nuggets came out of yesterday's Treasury committee hearing on the financial crisis with the tripartite authorities. First, an admission from the Lord Turner, the chairman of the Financial Services Authority, that despite the growing anger over City bonuses, the FSA will not be axing the perk for its own executives. And secondly, the statement by the chancellor, Alistair Darlin...
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Guardian on 4th Nov 2008 (via guardian.co.uk)
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. ...
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AustinMitchell on 14th Jul 2008 (via austinmitchell.org)
CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling will use his Pre-Budget Report later this autumn to step up action on tax avoidance and tax havens, a Treasury minister said yesterday.
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Scotsman on 21st Sep 2009 (via news.scotsman.com)
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...
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Guardian on 1st Jun 2009 (via guardian.co.uk)
CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling was forced to admit that Labour has dropped its controversial proposals for a "death tax", during the first of the pre-election television
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Scotsman on 30th Mar 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling was campaigning in Dundee yesterday, weeks after announcing a tax break for the computer games industry in his budget.
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Scotsman on 16th Apr 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
The chancellor, Alistair Darling, is preparing to admit that tax will need to rise after the next election as borrowing projections emerged showing the public finances in a worse state than previous estimates had shown. Darling will say that "adjustments" will have to be made, though it is unclear whether these will be slated for 2010 or 2011. Yesterday the Treasury refused to deny reports that it...
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Guardian on 22nd Nov 2008 (via guardian.co.uk)
Full details of Alex Salmond's meeting with the Chancellor Alistair Darling have now emerged and, according to the Treasury, far from being summoned to a meeting at the Treasury Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond invited himself! What happened, according to Mr Darling's aides was this: The chancellor was due to hold meetings at the Treasury with George Osborne and Vincent Cable,...
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AlanCochrane on 30th Sep 2008 (via blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
Gordon Brown is working on a "nuclear option" Cabinet reshuffle which would see Alistair Darling replaced as Chancellor The Sunday Telegraph has learned.
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Telegraph on 10th May 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Alistair Darling the Chancellor has refused to rule out future tax rises after admitting that Government borrowing will have to rise this year.
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Telegraph on 22nd Sep 2008 (via telegraph.co.uk)
A new top rate of income tax for those earning over £150000 has been announced in the Budget by Alistair Darling the Chancellor.
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Telegraph on 22nd Apr 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)