:00:21. > :00:25.Good afternoon. The former Labour Chancellor Alistair Darling has
:00:25. > :00:28.spoken of how his relationship with Gordon Brown got progressively
:00:28. > :00:33.worse as the then Prime Minister tried to replace him during a
:00:33. > :00:36.banking crisis. In his first broadcast interview since extracts
:00:36. > :00:42.of his memoir started being serialised, he told the BBC that
:00:42. > :00:47.the situation had been deeply unpleasant.
:00:47. > :00:50.The yet again a leading Labour figures have decided to bank a few
:00:50. > :00:54.pennies from a publisher in return for unburdening himself about his
:00:54. > :00:59.experience of working with Gordon Brown. Yet again it falls some
:00:59. > :01:09.distance short of a flowing river of compliments. Alistair Darling's
:01:09. > :01:09.
:01:09. > :01:15.memoirs are serialised in a national newspaper. He says he ran
:01:15. > :01:19.a fairly brutal regime and that his behaviour was sometimes appalling.
:01:19. > :01:24.Attacking the Tories and then me is the stuff of politics but what is
:01:24. > :01:27.so debilitating is when your own lot is doing it to you. He is also
:01:27. > :01:31.critical of his approach to the recession. He wanted to be more
:01:31. > :01:35.candid about cuts than Gordon Brown was willing to be. The Bank of
:01:35. > :01:40.England faces criticism as well for not knowing enough about what was
:01:40. > :01:43.going on during the banking crisis and for being badly structured.
:01:43. > :01:47.present Government wants to make the Bank of England not just
:01:47. > :01:52.responsible for interest rates, but also the supervision of banks, when
:01:52. > :01:56.his track record is mixed. Also it has the overall responsibility for
:01:56. > :02:03.ironing out the peaks and troughs of the economic cycle. That is a
:02:03. > :02:07.lot to invest in one body. reform of banking will be an
:02:07. > :02:09.important debate tomorrow but it is another day for Ed Miliband and
:02:10. > :02:13.Labour when they are reminded of the poisonous atmosphere at the top
:02:13. > :02:17.of their party when they are in Government.
:02:17. > :02:20.The front runner to be leader of the Scottish Conservatives says he
:02:20. > :02:25.will disband the party North of the border if he wins the leadership
:02:25. > :02:30.election. Murdo Fraser suggested that a new centre-right party with
:02:30. > :02:35.a Scottish identity would attract more voters. We currently have only
:02:35. > :02:41.one member of Parliament supporting a Conservative Government from
:02:41. > :02:45.Scotland. I think that is a disgrace and we should be doing
:02:45. > :02:50.much better than that. This is a bold statement, but is it being
:02:50. > :02:55.taken seriously? I think the idea has momentum now in a way that it
:02:55. > :02:59.did not have several years ago when Murdo Fraser first suggested it.
:02:59. > :03:05.Perhaps that is because in the meantime nothing seems to have
:03:05. > :03:08.detoxified the Tory brand in Scotland. Murdo Fraser things that
:03:08. > :03:16.independence for the party and a new name will help. He does not
:03:16. > :03:19.support independence forced -- for Scotland, however. Some thinks this
:03:20. > :03:24.plays for a nationalist agenda but others wonder if it is real change.
:03:24. > :03:30.He has to win a leadership contest for this change to happen and he
:03:30. > :03:33.has two candidates to beat. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former
:03:33. > :03:36.head of the International Monetary Fund, has arrived home in France.
:03:36. > :03:40.The 62 year-old fought his way through a mob of photographers to
:03:40. > :03:43.his front door in Paris. He has been in the United States in May
:03:43. > :03:47.when he was arrested on sexual assault charges which have now been
:03:48. > :03:52.dropped. He faces another allegation in France.
:03:52. > :03:56.In sport, on the final day of the World Athletics Championships, Mo
:03:56. > :04:00.Farah has just won the gold medal for Britain in the 5000 metres
:04:00. > :04:04.after disappointment in a 10,000 when he picked up silver. He swept