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Alistair Darling has defended the secrecy surrounding 62bn of loans to prop up RBS and HBOS as a necessary measure to prevent a Northern Rock-style bank run.

The Conservatives will tomorrow make an ambitious pitch to win the environmental vote with a raft of measures including plans to pay the public to recycle and a promise to cut government emissions by 10% within 12 months of taking office.

Confidence among British businesses has risen to a six-year high, a new survey suggests today, boosting hopes that the recession is over.

The Tories have jumped on the Jedward bandwagon, branding Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling "Deadwood". A poster campaign features the faces of the Prime Minister and Chancellor imposed on a photograph of the X-Factor's Irish twins John and Edward Grimes.

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's public finances worsened by a record amount in October, official data showed yesterday, one day after Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledged legislation to halt the damage.

As budget deficit hits A 11.4bn, economic thinktank expects a weaker upturn for Britain over next two years The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development today warned Alistair Darling that he has no scope to afford pre-election giveaways, as official figures revealed that last month was the worst October on record for the public ...

Alistair Darling and Ed Balls and were last night embroiled in a bitter feud over public spending.

CITY regulators are to be given unprecedented new powers to tear up bankers' contracts if they include excessive pay and bonus deals which might threaten the stability of the financial system.

Retailers have abandoned their campaign to persuade Alistair Darling to postpone the January 1 rise in Vat to 17.5% after the Treasury said the chancellor was committed to the move.

U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Browna s government will this week announce plans to make some bankersa bonuses illegal as it tries to clamp down on the excessive risk- taking that helped stoke the financial crisis.

BANKERS' contracts could be ripped up by City regulators and their banks fined under tough new powers designed to prevent another collapse of the financial system.

Alistair Darling arrives at the Marylebone JobCentrePlus in London. The number of professionals on the dole has shot up since the recession started The 'white collar' recession has seen unemployment among professionals soar, new figures showed today.

By Jenny Fyall THE head of a renewables group will today call on Chancellor Alistair Darling to hand over A 174 million of unspent money for Scottish green energy projects.

THE G20 summit ended in disarray last night after the US shot down plans for a new tax on banks just hours after they were floated by Alistair Darling.

THE SNP yesterday blamed Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling as a further 1,000 job losses were announced by bosses at Lloyds Banking Group.

THE Glasgow North-East by-election is a fight for the "future" of the city, Alistair Darling declared yesterday.

Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the SNP have urged voters yesterday in Glasgow North East not to vote for the British National Party in Thursday's by-election. Their decision to join forces rather than ignore the BNP campaign, is evidence of mounting concern about the far-right party in a country where its impact has hitherto been negligible.

ST. ANDREWS, Britain, Nov. 7 -- It is still too early to remove stimulus, and climate change financing remains the key to success of the Copenhagen conference, the G20 finance ministers and bank governors said Saturday.

Chancellor insists Obama administration's refusal to back a 'day-to-day financial transaction tax' does not mean an end to plans Alistair Darling today pledged that the Government would step up its fight for a new international tax on banking despite an initially frosty response to the plan from Washington.