Alistair Darling: Westminster stunned by shock death of canny chancellor who steered UK through financial crash
Sky News says In life as well as in politics, Alistair Darling was a canny Scot.
At a dinner with Sky News journalists when he was chancellor, I told him I’d just bought a new car.
“Never buy a new car,” he told me. “They depreciate in value immediately. Buy one that’s a few months old.”
Sound advice, no doubt. But it demonstrated how the nation’s finances were in good hands.
Like many leading politicians of the Blair-Brown years, Alistair Darling started on the left.
