Alistair Darling to be remembered at memorial service in Edinburgh
dailyrecord.co.ukAlistair Darling will be remembered at a memorial service in Edinburgh on Tuesday. After a private cremation took place on Monday, mourners will now gather at St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral in the capital at 11am today.
Those in attendance will include former prime ministers Sir Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and the current shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves.The former Chancellor of the Exchequer died on November 30, aged 70, following a stay in hospital where he was being treated for cancer.
Piper Finlay MacDonald will provide music before the service begins alongside pieces from classical composers Johannes Brahms and Johann Sebastian Bach.A choir will sing the hymns In The Bleak Midwinter, Love Divine and Jerusalem.
Mr Darling's children, Anna and Calum, will read eulogies, as will friend and former Labour minister Brian Wilson and Rachel Reeves.Mr Darling served as a Labour MP between 1987 and 2015, first for Edinburgh Central and then for Edinburgh South West.
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