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.

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Wednesday, 26 May 2010

The new government has achieved a lot in just two weeks. It would surely have taken about two months on the Continent, where coalitions are much more common.

Andrew Grice: Two manifestos become one: but how long will it hold?

Thursday, 13 May 2010

"There is a coalition at the heart of the Treasury," George Osborne, the new Chancellor, told his officials yesterday. He underlined his message by welcoming his Liberal Democrat deputy, David Laws, to the Treasury building opposite St James's Park.

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