Blog posts tagged "Alistair Darling"

March 24, 2010 1:25 pm 4 Comments

Channel 4 News political editor Gary Gibbon blogs on how the budget shows Labour's strategy for neutralising Conservative attacks on the economy.

12:06 pm 1 Comment

Alistair Darling prepares to deliver the budget, but we learn little very new more about the grim times ahead today.

February 14, 2010 1:50 pm 6 Comments

Interviewing Denis Healey and former IMF chief Johannes Witteveen about the day Britain had to be bailed out by the IMF.

January 6, 2010 3:20 pm 8 Comments

Brown leadership challenge: would Geoff Hoon really fire off just one shot without choreographing a second one, blogs Gary Gibbon.

December 23, 2009 3:25 pm 12 Comments

So who would send a Christmas card without enough postage, asks political editor Gary Gibbon.

December 7, 2009 8:26 pm 11 Comments

I get the impression that going after bankers’ bonuses through national insurance is not the option the Treasury is going for in the PBR. The approach will be a more straightforward though unprecedented raid on one group of workers – employees of banks trading in the UK who get chunky bonuses.

1:25 pm 4 Comments

Pre-Budget report: it will not be a windfall on the banks but some sort of tax hit directly on the bankers' bonuses, blogs Gary Gibbon for Channel 4 News.

November 25, 2009 1:24 pm 2 Comments

The Chancellor's statement to the Commons has calmed down the secret bank loans story, although Alistair Darling was summoned to speak by an increasingly active Speaker.

September 28, 2009 11:19 am No Comments

Alistair Darling will today tell the conference here that he's going to talk to the bankers and tell them to restrain themselves this Christmas.

September 15, 2009 3:24 pm No Comments

Brown speaks of 'cuts' at the TUC; a small demo greets the opening of the Prime Minister's speech.