Alistair Darling

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

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

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

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