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Hello and welcome to a special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots.

This week we had the sad news of the passing of Alistadarling age 70.

He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Prime Minister Gordon Brown from 2007 to 2010.

To discuss his memory and his legacy, I'm now joined by Fraser Nelson, editor of The Spectator,

and Catherine McCloud, former political editor of the Herald who served as a special advisor to

Azder darling during this time in the Treasury. I suppose to begin with you, Fraser,

on hearing the news what were your initial memories, I think in terms of what we will think of anything as, darling?

Well, the first news was astonishment. He was young, he was 70 years old. He was not, you know, he still seemed to me to be in pretty good health though I didn't

know him anything like as well as Catherine does he gave an interview to the times just a few

weeks ago and it was he was somebody you expected to hear from for quite some time but it seems

that from what I gather he knew he's known for quite some time he was ill but he didn't let on and that

is Alster down to a tee. But the other strange thing or strikes me about

him is that he was a chancellor in very controversial times, a chancellor during the great crash.

He ought, technically, he ought to have been a divisive figure, an unpopular figure. He would be the face of telling people how bad things were going to be, and yet he emerged from that crisis with his approval rating higher than it was when he went into it

and with his incredibly enhanced as a result of his handling of his crisis.

Now I can't think of a finance minister anywhere as a result of his handling of his crisis.

Now I can't think of a finance minister anywhere in the world

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