Michael Crick

He has been Theresa May’s right-hand man for seven years, first as her Home Office adviser and now as the Downing Street chief of staff. But Nick Timothy is tonight facing fresh questions about his role in the 2015 general election.

Snatching catastrophe from the jaws of defeat: Jeremy Corbyn has resisted the growing clamour for him to step down after Labour’s humilating result in Copeland, an area it’s held for decades. There was some consolation when Labour managed to hold on to Stoke-on-Trent, seeing off Ukip’s challenge.

Westminster braces for a pair of crucial by-elections this Thursday, with Labour desperate to hang on to two constituencies in its heartlands. In Stoke-on-Trent Central the result could be on a knife edge as Labour try to hold off the Ukip challenge.

Labour faces major tests in two by-elections later this month. In Stoke-on-Trent Central, and in the Copeland constituency in Cumbria, where the Conservatives are the main electoral threat.

Now the government has published its Brexit negotiating plans in a White Paper setting out 12 principles from controlling migration to what they call “taking control of our own laws”. Brexit secretary David Davies promised plenty of engagement with parliament and the public as the process moves forward but Labour said the document said “nothing”.

He’s a candidate in the Stoke by-election, but  did Ukip leader Paul Nuttall break election law? He stated  on his nomination form that his current home was an address in the constituency which, he admitted to this programme today, he’d never even visited.

First the High Court, then the Supreme Court, and now a white paper, setting out in detail the Government’s actual negotiation plans over the how and when of Brexit..Theresa May wanted none of it. But she has been forced into the latest concession after some Conservative MPs joined opposition calls for a formal document making…

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is furious that the devolved assemblies won’t be getting their own say, declaring it showed that claims about Scotland being an equal partner were just “empty rhetoric” and “worthless”.

The former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw could be sued by a former Libyan dissident who was allegedly kidnapped by the CIA in 2004 and taken to Libya.

Fresh elections will be held in Northern Ireland after the power-sharing agreement collapsed.

His time in the Commons was, he said, both deeply rewarding and intensely frustrating: with that, the leading Labour MP Tristram Hunt announced he was stepping down from Parliament.

The contest for the leadership of Britain’s biggest union is being compared to a battle for the Labour movement’s soul.

He was Britain’s top man in Brussels. One of the country’s most experienced EU negotiators, he had been earmarked to play a key role in this year’s Brexit talks. But today Sir Ivan Rogers stunned the political world by announcing his resignation.

The government has promised an additional £400m to help supply faster broadband to more than half a million homes – after the watchdog found 1.4 million households don’t have good enough access to meet the most basic digital needs. Our Politics Correspondent Michael Crick speaks to Culture Secretary Karen Bradley about it.

Jeremy Corbyn has been given something of an awkward Christmas present by one of his MPs. Jamie Reed is to resign his seat of Copeland in Cumbria at the end of January.