"The Chancellor has enraged the Prime Minister by refusing point-blank to back Mr Brown’s claim that his multi-billion-pound bailout of the banks has ‘saved 500,000 jobs’.
In an astonishing show of defiance, Mr Darling argued the claim cannot be substantiated and has told the PM to stop repeating it.
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Under heavy pressure from Mr Brown, Mr Darling used the 500,000 claim in his April Budget. But after being told it was based on ‘flimsy evidence’ he refused to repeat it - even though Mr Brown keeps on doing so.
As recently as July 22, the Prime Minister told a Downing Street Press conference: ‘If we had not intervened and acted decisively at least a further 500,000 jobs would have been lost.’
Mr Darling is instead making the much more vague assertion that the Government’s measures have saved ‘up to 500,000 jobs’."
Has Alistair Darling actually got the balls to stand up to Gordon Brown over more than just keeping his job? Maybe he has, maybe he hasn't; but whilst they bicker the UK economy just gets worse and worse under their incompetent management.
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