The Independent (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
It was fitting that David Miliband uttered his coded criticism of Gordon Brown through the veil of an attack on the Conservative Party, a tacit admission that the man making the running in British politics is David Cameron.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
It was fitting that David Miliband uttered his coded criticism of Gordon Brown through the veil of an attack on the Conservative Party, a tacit admission that the man making the running in British politics is David Cameron.
IndyBlogs (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
By Andrew Grice Has David Miliband been too fast out of the traps in his attempt to make clear he would be a candidate in the event of a Labour leadership election? Some Labour MPs think so-- and not just...
IndyBlogs (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
By Andrew Grice While Labour MPs, and some ministers, continue to throw stones at Gordon Brown even though he's supposedly on holiday, David Cameron has interrupted his own holiday in Cornwall to do a BBC Radio One phone-in, and to...
Ecademy: user blogs (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
The first sentance of the front page article of The Independent today, written by Andrew Grice, made me chuckle... 'The public believe David Cameron and the Conservative Party are ready to govern the country but are still not sure what they stand for'
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
... Prime Minister Cameron's first one hundred days is the focus on the final part of Andrew Grice's five-part series on Project Cameron this morning. Mr Grice notes the importance of the Implementation Unit under Francis Maude and the Tories' determination to hit the ground running from day one. Although Labour carried out big changes in their early days in power - like Bank of England...
ConservativeHome (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
... Times Brown to resist backbench calls to sack Miliband - The Independent Alice Miles profiles both David and Ed Miliband for The Times Tories have nothing to fear from David Miliband, writes Daniel Hannan for the Telegraph Cameron's first hundred days The final part of Andrew Grice's series on Tory policies for the Independent looks at the first acts of a Cameron government,...
ConservativeHome (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
ToryDiary: Labour's leadership crisis Two PlayPolitical videos: Sayeeda Warsi previews the Birmingham social action project that will be taking place on the margins of the autumn party conference Damian Green MP reacts to Government's loss of 3,000 blank passports David...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
The public believe David Cameron and the Conservative Party are ready to govern the country but are still not sure what they stand for, according to a poll carried out by ComRes for The Independent.
IndyBlogs (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
By Andrew Grice The slogan "families need fathers" may be about to take on a new meaning. Politicians from all parties have been banging on for years about the need for fathers to pay their fair share towards the upbringing...
IndyBlogs (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
By Andrew Grice Deep gloom among the (small number) of Labour MPs who are still at Westminster; many are already "in their constituencies" (or on hols) because the Commons starts its 11-week summer recess tomorrow. Their latest bout of depression...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... Bakewell Terence Blacker Simon Carr Rupert Cornwell Mary Dejevsky Hermione Eyre Robert Fisk Andrew Grice Adrian Hamilton Johann Hari Philip Hensher Howard Jacobson Dominic Lawson John Lichfield Donald Macintyre Hamish McRae Matthew Norman Deborah Orr Christina Patterson John Rentoul Steve Richards Sarah Sands Joan Smith Mark Steel Janet Street-Porter Alan Watkins Andreas Whittam Smith Columnists...
IndyBlogs (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
By Andrew Grice It's a fair bet that both Gordon Brown and David Cameron would have spent even longer than usual rehearsing their lines for today's session of Prime Minister's Questions, the last before parliament's long summer break. Leaders like...
ConservativeHome (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
... the credibility of budgetary policy. That must change. " - Times leader The Tories and tax "David Cameron warned that an incoming Tory government might inherit such an economic mess it would be forced to raise taxes. He had three aims: a "blame Labour" insurance policy in case he actually has to do it; to lower public expectations on tax cuts, in case they prove impossible in a first term;...
IndyBlogs (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
By Andrew Grice David Davis passed the credibility test by securing a turnout of 34 per cent in the "42 days-detention" by-election he provoked in his Haltemprice and Howden, which he won with a majority of 15,355. True, the campaign...
