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Politics Live - readers' edition: Friday 15 December

EU leaders at the EU summit in Brussels yesterday.
EU leaders at the EU summit in Brussels yesterday. Photograph: Julien Warnand/AP

Actually, given the significance of events in Brussels today, we will be running a regular Politics Live blog as well. You can follow all the developments with Haroon Siddique here.

Updated

I’m not writing my usual blog today but here, as an alternative, is the Politics Live readers’ edition. It is a place for you to discuss today’s politics, and to share links to breaking news and to the most interesting stories and blogs on the web.

But I will be in the office tomorrow taking calls for the Guardian/Observer charity telethon. We are raising money for three charities tackling youth homelessness and destitution among asylum seekers. Details will be in the paper and on the website tomorrow. Do call if you can. I’ll be there from 2pm to 4pm.

You can read all today’s Guardian politics stories here.

And here are some of the main ones on our site this morning.

  • Theresa May lobbied for swift agreement on the terms of a post-Brexit transition period as she sought to reassure concerned leaders over dinner at an EU summit that she was still in control despite her Commons defeat.
  • Divisions over migration marred a show of unity at an EU summit on Thursday, after Germany and Italy hit back at plans that could spell the end of mandatory refugee quotas.
  • The Conservative MP Dominic Grieve has received death threats after leading a parliamentary rebellion that resulted in the prime minister’s first Commons defeat on Brexit.
  • Ministers are not serious about the gender pay gap, equality campaigners have said, after it emerged that the only female Downing Street communications director since 2010 was paid £15,000 less than men for the same role.
  • MPs have called on the government to consider legal action against the former chief executive of the public body building the new high-speed rail network, over £1.76m in redundancy payments made in direct contravention of civil service rules.

On Thursdays local council byelections take place. There were nine yesterday. Britain Elects has the results.

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