Alistair Darling

Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy. ”

Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes. ”

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death. ”

Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery. ”