Alistair Darling on 10 Years After the Financial Crash

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Watch Alistair Darling, Former Chancellor of the Exchequer, in our latest RSA Spotlight - the edits which take you straight to the heart of the event!

We're still in the backwash of the 2007 financial crash with everything we see today - austerity, brexit, Trump - traced back to the crash 10 years ago. In this fascinating insight, Alistair Darling, Chancellor of the Exchequer during this time, recalls a phonecall with the chairman of RBS which sent a shiver down his spine...

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