Alistair Darling

By Alan Fisher in Europe on March 24th, 2010
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14.00 GMT

Conservative leader David Cameron goes on the attack - saying the only decent ideas in the budget were stolen from his party.
 
He makes this about politics too. He tells the commons there should be an election now. Well he doesn't have long to wait.

One political pollster tells me that the political budget should play well with voters.

The pollster said:  "Alistair Darling has made the case for keeping on the same path to recovery. 

"The Conservatives have been thrown onto the back foot and will now need to explain to voters how they would make things better".

13.28 GMT

And he's done. We got the usual increase in sin taxes (alcohol, tobacco) and a plan for a new green investment bank which was heavily trailed.

By Alan Fisher in Europe on February 21st, 2010
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Gordon Brown, the British prime minister, might be about to surprise us all. 
 
For months most people have thought that he'll cling on to power until the last possible moment and only go to the country when he has to. So that points firmly towards early May being the polling date.
 
So why might he go earlier? Let's outline the case.
 
Firstly the big interview he did last week. 
 
Here the father who famously dismissed using his children to help him politically by annoucing "they're people not props" told us about the loss of his baby daughter, his son's ongoing illness and how he rather clumsily proposed to his wife.
 

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