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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Andrew Grice: The Coalition isn't finished, but Clegg must learn the lesson of this fiasco
Saturday, 11 December 2010
Inside Westminster
Andrew Grice: Invoking Thatcher may come back to haunt Cameron in the future
Saturday, 4 December 2010
Inside Westminster
Andrew Grice: Why Cameron can afford to relax as his rivals vie for the fairness vote
Saturday, 27 November 2010
Inside Politics
Andrew Grice: Ed Miliband needs to come up with some eye-catching ideas fast
Saturday, 20 November 2010
Inside Politics: When Ed Miliband returns from his two-week paternity leave on Monday, he will have a lot of work to do – and quickly. It may be a long haul until the next general election, but party leaders are often defined in the voters' eyes in their first 100 days in office.
Andrew Grice: The week that taught the Coalition the reality of being in power
Saturday, 13 November 2010
Inside Politics
Andrew Grice: The Civil Service is back – and the Coalition doesn't like it
Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Benchmarks and milestones are in, but they look like slimmed-down targets by another name
Andrew Grice: Miliband is preparing for the Coalition's end. He's in for a long wait
Saturday, 6 November 2010
Inside Politics
Andrew Grice: Osborne has placed a series of landmines on the road to re-election
Saturday, 23 October 2010
Inside Politics
Has Osborne just completed the Thatcherite revolution? (Not that he'd ever want to admit it)
Friday, 22 October 2010
Andrew Grice: Nick Clegg has repeatedly assured us that the spending cuts will not involve a repeat of the 'slash and burn' approach of the Thatcher government in the 1980s, when poorer regions of Britain were left to sink or swim.
Andrew Grice: In the end, it was all a bit less bloody than they feared at start
Thursday, 21 October 2010
Contrary to expectations, the Star Chamber did not have to hold any minister's feet to the fire.
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