Andrew Grice

Andrew Grice has been Political Editor of The Independent since 1998. He was previously Political Editor of The Sunday Times, where he worked for 10 years, and he has been a Westminster-based journalist since 1982. His column, Inside Politics, appears in The Independent each Saturday.

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Pressure grows on Government to outlaw ‘zero hours’ contracts as it is revealed Parliament uses them too

24 May 2013 06:58 PM

Lord Oakeshott calls for an end to 'standby' job contracts

The speech should have been made by David Cameron. Revealingly, it was made by Nick Clegg

Andrew Grice: It was the right speech for David Cameron. It came from Nick Clegg

24 May 2013 06:24 PM

Inside Westminster

Senior Tories will urge David Cameron to bring forward the referendum

Tory Eurosceptics to defy David Cameron again by demanding referendum on Europe is held on the same day as general election

22 May 2013 06:12 PM

PM tells Conservative MPs he will not make any more concessions over EU vote

Nick Clegg will rebuff Liberal Democrats who want to end the Coalition six months before the election

Coalition 'will last until 2015': Nick Clegg renews vows but warns David Cameron about danger of Europe and gay marriage rifts

22 May 2013 07:00 AM

Deputy Prime Minister says Lib Dems will fight the next election as a party of government, on their record and 'with a distinct vision of our own for the next government'

Work Programme 'is giving least help to worst off' and failing single parents

21 May 2013 09:05 AM

Private companies who win government contracts to help the jobless find work are “parking” some of the most disadvantaged people on benefits, MPs warn today.

Ed Miliband’s Labour Party and Nick Clegg’s Lib Dems need to network before the next general election, according to Peter Hain

The next coalition? Why Ed Miliband needs to get Nick Clegg's number

17 May 2013 08:54 PM

Former minister Peter Hain – a close ally of the Labour leader – tells Andrew Grice that his party must start making overtures to the Lib Dems

Andrew Grice: Friends abroad, but David Cameron has blood-scenting rivals at home

17 May 2013 06:38 PM

Inside Westminster: Cameron’s strategy could only work if Eurosceptics trust him. They don’t, and it hasn’t

Ukip leader Nigel Farage hits back at 'fascist' hecklers in Edinburgh pub

17 May 2013 10:19 AM

But he is accused of 'losing the plot' after breaking off an interview on BBC Radio Scotland over 'hatred' in its questioning

MP James Wharton

Curious career of James Wharton - David Cameron's EU Referendum Bill stooge

16 May 2013 10:38 AM

MP who accused party of talking too much about Europe is leading backbench revolt to ensure in/out vote held by 2017

George Osborne: 'Confidence is returning to financial markets'

George Osborne: Changing course on economy will take Britain 'back to square one'

15 May 2013 08:00 PM

Chancellor tells CBI's annual dinner that his economic plan is 'taking longer than anyone hoped,' but insisted real progress is being made

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Andrew Mitchell: 'It's no good feeling hard done by'

Andrew Mitchell: 'It's no good feeling hard done by'

In his first interview since 'plebgate', the former Chief Whip opens up just enough to concede that, in politics, you have to take the rough with the smooth

Johnny Marr talks relationships and reunions

He's worked with Modest Mouse, the Pet Shop Boys and Beck, to name a few, and recently released his first solo album. So why, wonders Johnny Marr, do people still hark on about The Smiths?
Corruption and the FCO: Blue skies, white sands, dark clouds

Corruption and the FCO: Blue skies, white sands, dark clouds

Special report: Met police call for criminal inquiry into former diplomat's Cayman Islands rule
Fallen angel: Winona Ryder on bouncing back from her decade in the wilderness

Fallen angel: Winona Ryder bounces back

She owned the 1990s... but then she disappeared. Now, Ms Ryder is back with quite the bang in her latest role, as the wife of a notorious real-life Mob hitman.
Roman Polanski shakes Cannes Film Festival

Roman Polanski shakes Cannes Film Festival

The director's new film, 'Venus in Fur', is one of the raciest on offer
Rev Richard Coles: 'I don’t have any concerns that God is cross with me for being gay and eventually the Church won’t either'

Rev Richard Coles on the Church and homosexuality

The mellifluous, erudite and witty Coles is the nation's most pop-culture-friendly priest
'Baghdad likes to live from crisis to crisis': Civil war looms in Iraq

Patrick Cockburn: Civil war looms in Iraq

The governor of Kirkuk - one of the country's most violent but successful provinces - fears the worst
Written on the body: Tattooists at pains to point out their artistic credentials

Written on the body

Tattooists at pains to point out their artistic credentials
Conquering Everest: 60 facts about the world's tallest mountain

Conquering Everest: 60 facts about the world's tallest mountain

The IoS marks the sixtieth anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first reaching the peak of the highest mountain on Earth
A new, and irreversible, Dust Bowl looms

Rupert Cornwell: A new, and irreversible, Dust Bowl looms

The destructive power of tornadoes will be as nothing once the Great Plains' vast underground water reserve dries up
Every creature's needless death diminshes us all

Philip Hoare: Every creature's needless death diminishes us all

A 60 per cent decline in our national species should alarm us, yet few of us act. But to mind more about animals would reflect well on society
Killing with kindness: Burma's religious battleground - and the monks at the heart of it

Killing with kindness: Burma's religious battleground

Six years ago, the world cheered the monks behind Burma’s Saffron Revolution. Now, a horrific new eruption of religious slaughter is being blamed on a 'Buddhist Bin Laden'.
Let's take it outside: Bill Granger's Bank Holiday feast

Let's take it outside: Bill Granger's Bank Holiday feast

You can’t always depend on the weather – but you can avoid the pitfalls of the British barbecue by preparing an elaborate outdoor feast indoors ahead of time...
The Calvin report: Stirring Champions League final shows how far English game must advance

The Calvin report

Stirring Champions League final shows how far English game must advance
10 big questions for the British & Irish Lions to answer

10 big questions for the British & Irish Lions to answer

Warren Gatland's squad fly Down Under aiming to do justice to the expectations – and hoping the Wallabies stay in the pub