Alistair Darling Wife: Who Is Margaret Vaughan?

Alistair Maclean Darling, Baron Darling of Roulanish is a British politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Prime Minister Gordon Brown from 2007 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1987 until he stepped down in 2015, most recently for Edinburgh South West.

Darling was first appointed as Chief Secretary to the Treasury by Prime Minister Tony Blair in 1997 and was promoted to Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in 1998.

On 3 November 2014, Darling announced that he was standing down at the 2015 general election. He was nominated for a life peerage in the 2015 Dissolution Honours and was created Baron Darling of Roulanish, of Great Bernera in the County of Ross and Cromarty, on 1 December 2015. He retired from the House of Lords in July 2020.

Alistair Darling Wife: Who Is Margaret Vaughan?

Alistair has been married to former journalist Margaret McQueen Vaughan since 1986; the couple has a son (Calum, born 1988) and a daughter (Anna, born 1990). Margaret Vaughan worked for Radio Forth, the Daily Record and Glasgow Herald until Labour’s election victory in 1997.

Darling’s media adviser, the former Herald political journalist, Catherine MacLeod, is a close friend of Vaughan and Darling, as well as being a long-standing Labour Party supporter. A sister Jane works as a cook and lives in Edinburgh. Darling has admitted to smoking cannabis in his youth.