The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
As the credit crunch bears down on companies and consumers, most of us appreciate a laugh to lighten the load. So hats off to Alistair Darling for cutting through the gloom to serve up a rib-tickling slice of tragic irony.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
The Chancellor's latest change of mind on reforming company taxation leaves the Treasury facing a dilemma, writes Edmund Conway.
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Alistair Darling will carry out another U-turn on tax this week by abandoning new moves to tax foreign profits made by British firms.
The Herald (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Alistair Darling, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is widely expected to announce the abandonment of plans to tax the foreign profits made by British firms later this week.
Evening Standard (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Alistair Darling will carry out another U-turn on tax this week by abandoning new moves to tax foreign profits made by British firms.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Alistair Darling is to scrap plans to crack down on British companies avoiding tax on foreign profits, it has been reported. The Chancellor's plan to be tougher on tax avoidance in return for exempting foreign profits from tax threatened to provoke an exodus of businesses from Britain, according to some analysts.
News & Information (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Alistair Darling will this week bow to pressure from business by scrapping contentious reforms to the taxation of foreign profits that threatened to provoke an exodus of companies from the UK.The concessions……Read more
Times Online (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Alistair Darling, the chancellor, is to seek shelter from Britain’s economic storm by going on holiday to one of Scotland’s most remote islands.
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling said many British taxpayers are unwilling to pony up more money to pay for public services.Darling also told The Times of London Britain's slumping economy could take years to improve.He said he informed Cabinet ministers money was running out for defense, security forces, hospitals, transport and schools.People will pay their fair share...
David Llewellyn (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
The strange relationship between Gordon Brown and his Chancellor is one of the most intriguing features of contemporary UK politics. They are long-standing friends but Darling's demeanor is now that of a man who has had enough of being pushed around. Whether he'll stand up to Brown on specifics, we shall see. But rumours swirl of rows, it is said Darling has twice threatened to resign...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Andrew Rawnsley: The surge in government debt and the breaking of its own fiscal rules is bound to further diminish Gordon Brown's reputation
Christian Today (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Chancellor Alistair Darling said in an interview published on Saturday that he was considering reforming the rules governing public finances and expected the economic downturn to last for years
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Chancellor Alistair Darling said in an interview published on Saturday that he was considering reforming the rules governing public finances and expected the economic downturn to last for years.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
The chancellor Alistair Darling has told Cabinet colleagues not to expect more cash for the public sector.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
I have seen the future, brother / It’s murder,” sang Leonard Cohen in his 1992 song The Future. Cohen, of course, is a poet, with a poet’s way of saying things. As Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling is more confined in his choice of words, but there seemed to be no mistaking the similarity of tone when he told The Times: “You have the twin effect of the credit crunch and very...
