Quotes from Alistair Darling

Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.

The key thing that went wrong was that a culture was allowed to develop where the relationship between what people did and what they got went way out of alignment, especially at the top end.

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.

We were at the stage where in a very short period of time, one of the world's biggest banks would have to shut the door and switch off the electricity.

Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.

Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.

Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.