There’s another question reverberating around Whitehall following Keir Starmer’s bold decision to abolish NHS England, writes Andrew Grice: will the cuts make the savings he hopes?

For all the talk about encouraging people back into jobs, you cannot “incentivise” many disabled people who are not capable of work, writes Andrew Grice. Yet this might be an unmistakable signal the p ...

Andrew Grice is a political columnist for The Independent, having been its political editor from 1998 to 2015. He has worked in Westminster since 1982 and unearthed many political scoops.

Another day, another crackdown on immigration. New rules say claims for British citizenship from people who arrive illegally will normally be refused – even if they have been given indefinite ...

When MPs gossip after Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs), they sometimes ask each other whether the session was their party leader’s best performance at the weekly joust. Unfortunately for Kemi ...

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As cabinet ministers thrash out how to balance the nation’s books, they are playing a new Treasury game. Its AI tool allows ministers to raise or cut departmental budgets to get the maximum ...

Writing in the Independent, Andrew Grice said: “The NHS pay deal is hardly a triumph for Sunak.” The proposal is “welcome” but “should have happened in early January”. Thousands of ...