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.

Cameron will be unable to stroll through the next conference as he did in 2009 - this time he will have a fight on his hands

Andrew Grice: Complacency was the Tory problem last year. Not now

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Andrew Grice: Chancellor is already thinking beyond the election

Thursday, 25 February 2010

When Alistair Darling replaced Gordon Brown as Chancellor in 2007, he was confident that his long-standing partnership with the new Prime Minister would stand him in good stead. He knew there would have to be compromises over his Budgets and major decisions with the man who had occupied the post for 10 years; after all, there is always tension between the occupants of 10 and 11 Downing Street. What Mr Darling did not expect was that he would be rubbished in anonymous briefings to the media by people in the Brown inner circle of which he had believed he was a part. The Chancellor is a team player who doesn't have a burning desire to be the captain and doesn't expect team-mates to kick lumps out of each other.

Andrew Grice: Don't bank on Cameron ditching sofa government

Saturday, 13 February 2010

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Andrew Grice: Brown's insurance against defeat

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

Gordon Brown's deathbed conversion to electoral reform may look like pure opportunism and widening the goalposts for his team just as the match kicks off. But in a few months, it might just be a clever insurance policy that pays a handsome reward.

Andrew Grice: For the first time, the Tories are worried – and with good reason

Saturday, 6 February 2010

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Andrew Grice: Stench that will linger long after stables are swept

Friday, 5 February 2010

When I asked an MP recently how the expenses issue was playing on the doorsteps, he replied that some voters were so disgusted that they still wouldn't open their door to any politician.

Andrew Grice: How Cameron's clever trick turned into the second Conservative wobble of 2010

Tuesday, 2 February 2010

It seemed a clever trick at the time. David Cameron knew that Gordon Brown would be holding his monthly press conference at 11am on Monday last week, and so he called his for 9.45am.

Andrew Grice: Capturing the public mood is one thing – keeping it is quite another

Saturday, 30 January 2010

In his first speech to the Conservatives' annual conference after becoming party leader, David Cameron endorsed gay marriages. He didn't know how Tory activists would react. Some old farts sat on their hands, stony-faced. But after a pregnant pause, applause began to ripple around the hall.