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Alistair Darling, former Labour chancellor, passes away at 70Alistair Darling, former Labour Chancellor, dies at 70. Known for guiding UK through financial crisis, tributes pour in for his public serv...
Scotland may not be a happier place if it leaves the UK but regional identities need expression tooA last-ditch offer of further devolution for Scotland over the past few days to include powers on taxation has served to highlight the sens...
- Britain's 5 biggest banks agree to curb bonuses
Britain's Treasury chief Alistair Darling says Britain's five biggest banks have promised to curb bonuses as agreed at the Group of 20 nati...
- UK plans to scrap automatic bonuses for bankers
British Treasury chief Alistair Darling says he'll outlaw automatic annual bonuses for bankers to curb excessive risk-taking in the county'...
- Alistair no darling for London's big bankers
Demetris Efstathiou, a hedge-fund trader and a Londoner for two decades, listened last week to Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling...
- EU continues its rich-poor divide
EU continued its wary face off over the rich-poor divide despite calls from Hungary that the 2 year waiting period should be waived, a prop...
- RBS to pay 1 bn pound in bonuses to staff: Report
The RBS is proposing to pay close to 1 billion pound in bonus to its staff, within months of it being rescued by the UK government.
- Britain orders bank bonuses, management probe
Britain is to conduct a review of bank management that will probe the link between bonuses and excessive risk-taking, Finance Minister Alis...
- British govt to hike top income tax band to 45 pc
British finance minister Alistair Darling on Monday said he planned to lift the highest rate of income tax to 45 per cent from 40 per cent ...
- UK Govt sees record borrowings since 1946: Reports
Reflecting the acute financial turmoil the country is going through, UK Govt's borrowings for six months ending September jumped to 37.6 bi...
- Economic crisis: Britain to increase public spending
Britain will boost public spending in its attempt to overcome the looming recession facing the nation, Chancellor of Exchequer Alistair Dar...
- UK bailout finalised over tandoori chicken
Top British officials, including Chancellor Alistair Darling, devoured spicy tandoori chicken before finalising a whopping 500 billion poun...
- UK prepared to extend further help to banks
UK is ready to offer further support to banks that may get into financial difficulty, chancellor of the exchequer Alistair Darling said.
- Britain to introduce banking reform bill: finance minister
British finance minister Alistair Darling said the government would introduce a bill to reform the banking sector in two weeks' time.
- Paulson: US economy set to strengthen at the end of 2008
US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Thursday that the US economy would most likely be stronger at the end of 2008 than it is now.
- Bank of England readies mortgage bailout plan
The Bank of England (BoE) on Monday will release its plan to swap government bonds for mortgage-backed securities in an effort to ease cred...
- Britain to nationalise troubled mortgage lender Northern Rock
Treasury chief Alistair Darling was making a statement on Sunday on the future of struggling bank Northern Rock PLC, amid reports the gover...
- 'Investment a two-way process'
Inflation, bank rates, floods and housing issues may dominate the local media, but Britain’s new chancellor of the exchequer Alistair Darli...
- UK wants govt to be open on Vodafone bid for Hutch
The UK today assured complete government neutrality on Tata Steel's bid to acquire Corus and sought similar treatment for British telecom f...
- Numbering growth in Delhi-London relations
There are numbers and there are numbers; Tony Blair, commerce minister Kamal Nath and British trade and industry secretary Alistair Darling...