Alistair Darling

The Scotsman Investment Conference, Scotsman Hotel, Edinburgh. Scott Louden

In full: Annual Scotsman Investment Conference report

The Scotsman Editor Neil McIntosh with former Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling. Image: Scott Louden

Investment Conference: Scotland's attitude must change

Former Chencellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling. Image: Scott Louden

Investment Conference: New focus vital in planning

Alastair Darling receives applause from Prime Minister Gordon Brown after making his speech during the 2008 Labour Party Conference in Manchester

Readers' letters: Are Tories still the party of Union and sound finance?

Tens of thousands of Scottish independence supporters march through Glasgow. Picture: John Devlin

Indyref push a 'distraction', says former campaign chief

Alistair Darling has written to voters urging them to vote Labour to stop indyref2.

Former No campaign chief urges voters to back Labour to stop indyref2

Chancellor Rishi Sunak will be under pressure to set out how he will continue to protect jobs in the 2021 Budget (Picture: Getty Images)

Chancellor must give nation hope as economic crisis rages – Christine Jardine MP

Ian Rankin features in the new BBC Scotland documentary.

Ian Rankin partied with RBS chief Fred Goodwin after doomed takeover deal

Rebalancing the country’s finances after spending heavily during the pandemic to support the economy is likely to take many years, if the experience of the 2008 financial crisis is anything to go by. Picture: Shutterstock

Has Covid-19 crisis cost the economy more than the 2008 credit crunch?

Scotland is currently caught in the crosshairs of Brexit, Nationalism and a war-like recession, says Duffy. Picture: David Moir.

Scotland, Europe, and the troubled economic backdrop - Jim Duffy comment

Former Chancellor Alistair Darling has said the economic effects of the pandemic will still be felt well into the next decade.

Alistair Darling urges Rishi Sunak to fight Covid recession 'like a war'

Young unemployed people demonstrate outside St Andrew’s House in Edinburgh about the Youth Opportunities Programme in June 1981 (Picture: Dennis Straughan)

Covid crisis risks return of 1980s-style mass unemployment – Alistair Darling

Young unemployed people demonstrate outside St Andrew’s House in Edinburgh about the Youth Opportunities Programme in June 1981 (Picture: Dennis Straughan)

Time running out for Edinburgh's Covid recovery plan – Alistair Darling

Neil Findlay has been an MSP for Lothian since 2011 (Picture: John Devlin)

Scottish Labour needs a new leader to help save the Union – John McLellan

Fern Brady by Matt Crockett

Fern Brady interview: "I got given the flu so I could pay for my Fringe"

Winston Churchill was re-elected in his own seat of Woodford in Essex, but an independent polled 10,000 votes against him

How Capital helped pave way for post-war society

Covid-19 has taken a wrecking ball to the economy. Picture: Getty/iStockphoto

Bill Jamieson: Cut taxes, keep spending? Old orthodoxy turned upside down

Nicola Sturgeon has wisely avoided playing politics with the crisis – but it remains to be seen if she will be so pragmatic in the longer term. Picture: Getty

Euan McColm: A rare chance to bridge the great constitutional divide

SNP has just dealt with one reason why it lost 2014 independence referendum – Ia...

Between the Lines: Higher taxes not the answer

Andrew Wilson: VW latest to focus solely on results

Nicola Sturgeon: We’ll have referendum when we can win

Darling: SNP and Ukip ‘two-sides of same coin’

Ex-SNP boss Gordon Wilson unsurprised by No vote

Allan Massie: Parliament poorer for Darling loss

Robin McAlpine: Scots anger to boil without change

Alistair Darling: More powers without risks

Alistair Darling. Picture: PA

Scottish independence: Debate to air across UK

Iain Macwhirter. Picture: TSPL

Drumlanrig: Ground control to Alex

The Scotsman Cartoon: Independence Easter Eggs

Scottish independence: SNP currency plan warning

Alex Salmond made several post-independence spending pledges during his speech. Picture: Getty

Scottish independence: SNP pledge on minimum wage

Shame as Labour’s hypocrisy goes viral

Military reenactors mark the Battle of Flodden's 500 year anniversary. Picture: Robert Perry

Comment: Independence will change future, not past

Picture: AFP/Getty

Scottish independence: Oil forecasts down £11bn

Scottish Independence: Alex Salmond makes his case

Independence: ‘Councils role to be in constitution’

Franklin D Roosevelt should be today’s role model

YesScotland argue for ‘just’ independent Scotland

Darling: Financial plans for independence don’t add up

‘Independent Scotland needs its own currency’

Ex-Hearts chief Phil Anderton joins pro-UK group

Scottish Independence Day plan for March 2016

Ewan Crawford: Economic imbalance no laughing matter

Alistair Darling could be set for shadow cabinet return

Scottish independence: Better Together warned to beware complacency

Ewan Crawford: Embracing the c-word: Change can be good

Euan McColm: Darling can’t stay in the comfort zone – his country needs him

Scottish independence: Independence ‘catastrophic’ for Rosyth, claim unions as S...

Scottish independence: David Cameron vows to win Scots ‘hearts and minds’ over i...

As it happened: Alistair Darling’s webchat

Michael Kelly: Confident Labour to decide referendum result

Chancellor admits Britain taking longer to recover than hoped, but insists he wi...

Scottish independence: Scotland faces ‘stark choices’ if oil revenues fall away,...

Gerry Hassan: Nat-bashing won’t help the unionists’ cause

Bill Jamieson: Five years on, future’s still bleak

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