Financial crisis Alistair Darling's 24 hours of indecision

telegraph.co.uk

Oct. 7, 2008

After a weekend at home in Edinburgh Alistair Darling returned to his Treasury office early on Monday morning knowing he was facing yet another day in the eye of a financial storm.

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