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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Ian Duncan Smith said his department  had provided a hotline to help people  pay back such benefits

Iain Duncan Smith backtracks after saying that wealthy pensioners should hand back their benefits

29 April 2013 12:38 PM

Work and Pensions Secretary says: 'I'm not making that a policy position'

In 2011, George Osborne anointed Christine Lagarde, the French finance minister, as the “outstanding candidate” to become managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

The IMF's check-up will give George Osborne another headache

26 April 2013 06:55 PM

Miliband may need five symbolic cuts to convince that he means business on the deficit

HMRC shows “continuing weakness” in the “never-ending game of cat and mouse” with the Big Four, which earn a total of almost £2bn a year from their UK tax work, the committee’s chairwoman, Margaret Hodge, said

Tax avoidance: Treasury minister dismisses 'absurd' warning that HMRC is ‘too cosy’ with accountancy giants

26 April 2013 12:00 AM

Big Four ‘outgun’ HMRC in tax avoidance battle

Lib Dems rebuff grassroots’ calls to restore 50p tax rate

25 April 2013 08:52 PM

Treasury claims high earners would find ways to avoid top rate

So far, older people have been relatively unscathed by the Coalition’s cuts

Tax on pensioners' perks seen as way to save billions

24 April 2013 07:16 PM

Lib Dems float their alternative to cutting free TV licences, bus passes and winter fuel

Women miss out in labour market as new jobs go to men

24 April 2013 12:00 AM

Women are missing out on the new jobs being created under the Coalition as the labour market returns to being male-dominated, according to a study published today.

Two million people are on local authority waiting lists for housing

George Osborne is under growing all-party pressure to boost housebuilding to kickstart the economy

24 April 2013 12:00 AM

Labour is expected to fight the 2015 election on a pledge to bring in a huge housebuilding programme

David Laws, the schools minister

Schools in well-off areas 'are failing' poorer pupils - who get better exam results in deprived areas

23 April 2013 12:00 AM

Minister says schools with more affluent pupils have disgraceful record for helping disadvantaged children

A young boy play's football in a street in Govan

Pay up or watch child poverty get worse, top advisers tell Coalition

22 April 2013 12:00 AM

Alan Milburn and Baroness Shephard call on Government to ‘put its money where its mouth is’

Alan Milburn, head of the Child Poverty Commission, and Baroness Shephard, his deputy

Alan Milburn and Gillian Shephard: 'The Government must be judged by its actions, not words. Our job is to judge the actions'

21 April 2013 09:53 PM

Alan Milburn and Gillian Shephard make an  unlikely team – but, they tell Andrew Grice, they both want ministers to do more on child poverty

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In the end the fans decided Tony Pulis had made a pig's ear of the job at Stoke City

In the end the fans decided Tony Pulis had made a pig's ear of the job at Stoke City

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James Lawton: The James Hunt I knew is the subject of a new F1 movie

James Lawton: The James Hunt I knew is the subject of a new F1 movie

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