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Andrew Grice

Andrew Grice

The Independent's Political Editor Andrew Grice has been writing about politics for 25 years. Formerly Political Editor at the Sunday Times, he claims he started at Westminster when he was 10 but Whitehall sources say he was 25. His column, The Week in Politics, appears in The Independent each Saturday, with regular updates throughout the week at Today in Politics.

Gordon Brown and David Cameron in the Members' Lobby at the House of Commons yesterday before the Queen's Speech

A belated attempt to force hand of Tory 'gamblers'

Andrew Grice: Brown raised the political stakes. But how will he pay for Queen's Speech promises?

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Andrew Grice: New Brown

Friday, 13 November 2009

The new Gordon Brown I detected here on Wednesday wasn't a hallucination after all. Interviewed on BBC Radio Four's Today programme this morning, the PM managed to keep up his new approach of speaking more slowly and calmly and avoided getting into an undignified slanging match. Conversation is much better than verbal brickbats.

Andrew Grice: Cameron is raising great expectations that may lead to a very bleak House

Saturday, 7 November 2009

Inside Politics: Mr Cameron said he would not let matters rest if the Lisbon Treaty became law, he is doing just that

The Government wants to have its cake and eat it

Tuesday, 3 November 2009

Andrew Grice: No winners in the bitter confrontation between Alan Johnson and Professor David Nutt.

Andrew Grice: Just as Mandelson was finally winning over his party...

Friday, 23 October 2009

After Lord Mandelson wowed last month's Labour conference, Tony Blair sent him a text in which he jokingly asked whether the party had been won over by the Business Secretary or whether it was the other way round.

Andrew Grice: Why the City need not fear a windfall tax

Wednesday, 21 October 2009

"Get real – Darling warns the bankers," said a front-page headline in The Independent in July. In an interview, the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, expressed concern that the bonus culture was creeping back in the City and threatened a law to rein them in.

Andrew Grice: Another big headache for Brown

Tuesday, 13 October 2009

Gordon Brown must feel he can't win on MPs' expenses. His first attempt to clean up the system, pre-empting the review by the Kelly Committee on Standards in Public Life by issuing his own proposals, is remembered only for his infamous YouTube video.

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