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

- Alistair Darling

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…

- Alistair Darling

We can't be in the business of carting fresh air around the country.

- Alistair Darling

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

- Alistair Darling

On top of that, we have a healthy and stable economy and an end to the boom and bust that characterised the Tory years.

- Alistair Darling

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

- Alistair Darling

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 electricit…

- Alistair Darling

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…

- Alistair Darling

The question is not whether Scotland can survive as a separate state. Of course it could.

- Alistair Darling