Andrew Grice

Keir Starmer clocked up another achievement on foreign affairs this week after he and fellow European leaders persuaded Donald Trump to offer

Keir Starmer clocked up another achievement on foreign affairs this week after he and fellow European leaders persuaded Donald Trump to offer US security...

Nigel Farage and Reform UK have gone conveniently silent on Brexit while decrying small boats and asylum seekers – Keir Starmer needs to take significant measures to expose the reality of what they’re selling, while convincing the public that Labour is on course to do better, writes Andrew Grice

Nigel Farage is using parliament's summer break to garner more headlines and public support for Reform UK's hardline approach to immigration and asylum.

COMMENT: In directing their fire at Nigel Farage, Reform’s opponents risk building him up, helping him seize the agenda – and further exposing their own limitations and failures over immigration, says Andrew Grice

The departure of Keir Starmer’s principal private secretary is but the latest appointee to have been a disappointment to him – a full reshuffle of the PM’s longstanding, trusted aides is overdue, says Andrew Grice

When it comes to appointing key people, has a poor record. Nin Pandit, who is being after only 10 months, is merely the latest example.

The Independent’s political columnist, Andrew Grice, is more used to the Westminster bubble than A&E but his recent encounter demonstrated how badly the NHS needs both money and reform

Thanks to an intervention by the former PM, politicians of all stripes can no longer dodge the difficult debate on scrapping the pensions triple lock – but, says Andrew Grice, funnelling money away from OAPs could now be a vote-winner

As Keir Starmer publishes a 1,500-word rebuttal to the Labour heavyweights who criticised in writing his government’s failures, Andrew Grice argues that – with Whitehall already engulfed in a blame game over broken promises and questions about the prime minister’s survival – this is no time for long, political screeds