Keynote

Thursday, July 4, 2019, 8:30am

Edinburgh Festival Theatre –•• 13–29 Nicolson Street;•• Edinburgh EH8 9FT

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Alistair Darling

now Baron Darling of Roulanish, was Chancellor of the Exchequer under Prime Minister Gordon Brown between 2007 and 2010.
 
He played a key role in the global financial crisis, among other things overseeing the nationalisation of the failing bank Northern Rock and being credited with preventing a full-scale economic depression. The drama of handling this period is detailed in his memoir, “Back from the Brink: 1,000 Days at Number 11”.
 
During the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, Alistair led the “Better Together” campaign to keep Scotland in the United Kingdom.