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Nick Timothy

British politician (born 1980)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 26, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Nicholas James Timothy is a British politician and former special adviser who has been serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and Shadow Lord Chancellor since 2026. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for West Suffolk since 2024, and was Downing Street Chief of Staff from 2016 to 2017 while Theresa May held a majority.

Editorial summary

“Nick Timothy” enters the record as british politician (born 1980). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nick, Timothy and British can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2026, 2024, 2016, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Nick, Timothy and British.
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Why this record matters

“Nick Timothy” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Nick, Timothy and British provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 26, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2026, 2024, 2016 and 2017.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nick Timothy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.