Shadow Cabinet positions


Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office 11 May 2010 – 8 October 2010
Leader	Harriet Harman (Acting)
Shadowing	George Osborne
Preceded by	George Osborne
Succeeded by	Alan Johnson
Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
In office 25 July 1996 – 3 May 1997
Leader	Tony Blair
Shadowing	William Waldegrave
Preceded by	Harriet Harman
Succeeded by	David Heathcoat-Amory

Personal details

Born

28 November 1953 (age 63)
Hendon, UK

Political party

Spouse(s)

Margaret Vaughan

Children

Alistair Maclean Darling, Baron Darling of Roulanish, PC (born 28 November 1953) is a Labour Party politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2007-2010 and as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1987 until he stepped down in 2015, most recently for Edinburgh South West. He was the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labour Government from 2007-10, and was one of only three people to have served in the Cabinet continuously from Labour's landslide victory at the 1997 general election until their defeat at the 2010 general election, the other two people being; Gordon Brown and Jack Straw.

Darling was first appointed as Chief Secretary to the Treasury by Prime Minister Tony Blair in 1997, before being promoted to become Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in 1998. After spending four years at that department, he spent a further four years as Secretary of State for Transport, while also becoming Secretary of State for Scotland in 2003. Blair moved Darling for a final time in 2006, making him President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, before new Prime Minister Gordon Brown promoted Darling to replace himself as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 2007, a position he remained in until 2010.