Alistair Darling was Britain's chancellor during the financial crisis of 2008.

He tells HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur that politicians need to do far more and react faster than they have been to resolve the EU crisis but fears it will take another deep crisis to force leaders to find a viable solution.

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