Alistair Darling Quotes
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Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.
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Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.
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Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.
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The key thing that went wrong was that a culture was allowed to develop where the relationship between what people did and what they got went way out of alignment, especially at the top end.
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We were at the stage where in a very short period of time, one of the world's biggest banks would have to shut the door and switch off the electricity.
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The question is not whether Scotland can survive as a separate state. Of course it could.
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On top of that, we have a healthy and stable economy and an end to the boom and bust that characterised the Tory years.
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The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.
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As I said, there are two approaches-first, a strong economy, stability and helping families or, secondly, the Tory cuts, the undermining of stability, and a return to the boom and bust of the 1990s.
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The economic times we are facing... are arguably the worst they've been in 60 years. And I think it's going to be more profound and long-lasting than people thought.
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We can't be in the business of carting fresh air around the country.
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