Back from the Brink: Alistair Darling

BACK FROM THE BRINK: 1000 DAYS AT NUMBER 11
Alastair Darling In Conversation with David McWilliams
Back from the Brink tells the gripping story of one thousand days of crisis. As UK Chancellor, Alistair Darling sanctioned the £37bn bailouts of RBS and HBoS just minutes before their cash machines would have ceased to function; at the 11th hour, he prevented Barclay’s from acquiring Lehman Brothers, telling US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson that he wouldn’t allow British banks to import America’s economic cancer. From all night meetings at the White House, to confrontations with the titans of international banking and fractions relations with Gordon Brown, Darling places the reader in the rooms where the destinies of millions weighed heavily on the shoulders of a few.
Back from the Brink is a gripping and immediate account of an unprecedented global financial catastrophe, one of which we Irish are all too painfully aware.
In a long political career, Alistair Darling has held several major government postings including Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Secretary of State for Transport, Secretary of State for Scotland in 2003 and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry.  Gordon Brown promoted him to Chancellor in 2007.
As one of Ireland’s most perceptive and outspoken financial commentators, David McWilliams is uniquely positioned to elicit the most telling insights on the financial crisis from one its central players.
Sunday September 11th
11.00am or 1.00pm
Pavilion Theatre
€15 & €12 Concessions

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Back from the Brink:  1000 Days at Number 11 tells the gripping story of one thousand days of crisis. As UK Chancellor, Alistair Darling sanctioned the £37bn bailouts of RBS and HBoS just minutes before their cash machines would have ceased to function; at the 11th hour, he prevented Barclay’s from acquiring Lehman Brothers, telling US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson that he wouldn’t allow British banks to import America’s economic cancer. From all night meetings at the White House, to confrontations with the titans of international banking and fractious relations with Gordon Brown, Darling places the reader in the rooms where the destinies of millions weighed heavily on the shoulders of a few.

Back from the Brink is a gripping and immediate account of an unprecedented global financial catastrophe, one of which we Irish are all too painfully aware.

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In a long political career, Alistair Darling has held several major government postings including Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Secretary of State for Transport, Secretary of State for Scotland in 2003 and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry.  Gordon Brown promoted him to Chancellor in 2007.

 

As one of Ireland’s most perceptive and outspoken financial commentators, David McWilliams is uniquely positioned to elicit the most telling insights on the financial crisis from one its central players.

Sunday September 11th
11.00am
Pavilion Theatre
€12 & €10 (Concession)
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