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4 hrs ago | LBC 97.3

Darling Defends Secrecy Of 62bn Bank Loans

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.

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Mon Nov 23, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

Tories pledge 10% cut emissions cut

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.

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Related Topix: Conservatives (UK)

Times Online

Business confidence at six-year high, but GDP and lending figures remain weak

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

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Sun Nov 22, 2009

Galloway Today

Jedward jibe by Tories targets PM

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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Sat Nov 21, 2009

Times Online

I never showed Alistair Darling my new contract

It's just dawned on me that when I started my present job a year ago, I made a big mistake.

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Related Topix: Opinion

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Gulf Times

Public finances worsen by record 11.3bn: ONS

'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.

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Related Topix: Conservatives (UK)

UTV

OECD tells Darling that he cannot afford a pre-election giveaway

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 ...

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Wed Nov 18, 2009

Daily Mail

Darling turns down Balls' request for 2.6bn increase to education budget

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

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Mon Nov 16, 2009

IcWales

Watchdoga s extra powers to slash bankersa bonuses

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.

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Related Topix: Conservatives (UK), Life, Holidays, Christmas

Sun Nov 15, 2009

Times Online

Retailers give up fight on VAT rise

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.

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Bloomberg.com

Brown to Allow U.K. Regulators to `Tear Up' Some Bankers' Bonus Agreements

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.

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Related Topix: Conservatives (UK), Labour Party (UK), Europe, World News, United Kingdom

Sat Nov 14, 2009

Times Online

Alistair Darling blueprint to end the banksa casino culture

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.

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Daily Mail

White collar recession: How number of bankers and directors signing on dole has shot up

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.

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Related Topix: Conservatives (UK)

Fri Nov 13, 2009

Scotsman.com News

Renewables head urges Alistair Darling to release green-energy cash

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.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Science / Technology, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy

Thu Nov 12, 2009

The Daily Record

UK & World News: Chancellor's plan for tax on banks gets shot down at G20

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.

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Wed Nov 11, 2009

The Sun Online

Stabbed in the bank

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

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Related Topix: Lloyds TSB Group, Financial Services

Tue Nov 10, 2009

The Daily Record

Politics News: Alistair Darling: Glasgow North East by-election is...

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

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Mon Nov 09, 2009

UK News from Times Online

Mainstream parties attack BNP's 'nasty message of hate'

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.

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Xinhuanet

G20 reluctant to remove stimulus

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.

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Related Topix: Fife County, Scotland, United Kingdom, World News, Ben Bernanke

Sun Nov 08, 2009

UTV

Alistair Darling backs Brown's Tobin tax despite cold shoulder from US

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.

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