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.
Andrew Grice: Summit poses possible headache for Tory leader
Climate change really is an issue that can split conservatives around the world
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Andrew Grice: Enough of the high-flown philosophy, Mr Cameron. Where are the policies?
Saturday, 28 November 2009
Inside Politics
Blair beaten, but a coup for Brown
Saturday, 21 November 2009
Andrew Grice: Tony Blair knew the game was up a week ago. He admitted it in telephone calls to Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel. It was clear that the job described as "President of Europe" was going to be nothing of the sort.
A belated attempt to force hand of Tory 'gamblers'
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Andrew Grice: Brown raised the political stakes. But how will he pay for Queen's Speech promises?
Andrew Grice: Whisper it, but Whitehall is already preparing for a change at No 10
Saturday, 14 November 2009
Inside Politics
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: Cameron has yet to earn the love of the Conservative Party
Saturday, 24 October 2009
Inside Politics
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.
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