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In the last half hour - agreement at last on EU

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David Cameron says he's negotiated a deal to give the UK special status

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Agreement was supposed to be reached over breakfast.

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Instead it took until dinner for the 28 EU leaders to see eye

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The details are still coming in, it's being reported

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that the Prime Minister has secured a seven-year curb on

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of his closest Cabinet allies, Michael Gove, will

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As details of the deal emerge, we'll be live in Brussels

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Also in the programme: US warplanes bomb a training camp

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for Islamic State militants - targeting a man linked

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She did something that in our society is unspeakable.

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Harper Lee, the woman who wrote To Kill A Mockingbird -

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one of the most famous books in the world -

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Later on BBC London: With a new deal on Europe on the horizon,

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how would the one million EU nationals living here feel

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And 15 years on from the foot and mouth disaster, how

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After almost 30 hours of intense negotiations,

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wrangling and delays at the EU summit in Brussels,

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David Cameron says he has agreed a special status that the European

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Union. It will pave the way for an in-out

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referendum - very possibly in June. The news of a deal came a short time

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ago after lengthy talks between David Cameron's plans to restrict

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migrant benefits proved to be one Tonight, the President

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of the European Council, Donald Tusk, announced there had

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been unanimous support for the deal. Let's go straight to our Europe

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editor Katya Adler in Brussels. Yes, getting a decision on this deal

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really did take hours and hours. It had been supposed to be announced

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what was dubbed an English breakfast this morning. It slipped into a

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lunch and now this dinner. We heard David Cameron did get unanimous

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support that he needed from all 27 countries for this deal. He did get

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what he wanted but not only that, evidence that what ever his critics

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will say about the content of the deal, it was significant enough that

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he will have to fight hard to get it. Breaking bread

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together is a time-honoured way to forge good relations with your

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neighbours. It has taken David Cameron hours of horse trading to

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get together with the other it U leaders. Now they are dining over a

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new deal. There are rumours there is resolution for desert. The day got

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off to a far less harmonious start. David Cameron was not the only

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bleary eyed leader on the block. Bad-tempered bilateral meetings had

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dragged on until dawn. I was here until five o'clock this morning. We

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have made some progress, but there is still no deal. I have said I will

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only do a deal if we get what Britain needs. I will get back in

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there, do some more work and I will do what I can.

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Instead of hailing a UK deal this morning, the Prime Minister found

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himself in a grinding new world of talks. We are happy to stay till

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Sunday. He had told the wife and kids, you said, there could be some

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delay. A case of laughing on the outside, not so happy on the inside.

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The Prime Minister had promised a battle for Britain at the summit,

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the truth is that after weeks and months of shuttle diplomacy,

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travelling, meeting leaders across Europe, he did not expect such

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strong push back on such a number of issues from so many countries around

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the table here. TRANSLATION: The proposal currently on the table does

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not satisfy all parties. We have not finished yet. Preventing the leaders

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from finishing were very specific objections to David Cameron's

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proposed reforms. The French opposed safeguards against rules for

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preferential treatment for the City of London. The Belgians and others

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objected to changing EU treaties, to write Britain out of the deal for

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ever closer union. Central and Eastern European countries fought

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back against the so-called emergency brake, a low the government to cut

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EU migrant benefits. David Cameron wanted a break in 13 years. We hear

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they have settled for seven. Poland and others also dug in their heels

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over changing child benefits for EU migrant workers. And on top of that,

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the Greek Prime Minister decided to hijack this oh so public opportunity

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to do some hard bargaining. Help me with migrant arrivals, he said, and

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I will not stand in the way of a British deal. As the hours ticked

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by, news began to leak that slow EU progress was being made. The 12

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leaders here want to get this deal done so they can turn to other

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pressing concerns. We keep hearing about big gaps between the countries

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on different issues, they have been going on for months now. How can

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they suddenly be resolved? If each and every country pursues its

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national interest, that is logical, but in the end, we all have to

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understand that if Great Britain leaves the EU, we all get nothing.

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That has been an element of smoke and mirrors here, all parties felt

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the need to be seen to stand their ground. That is why proceedings have

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taken so long. It has become clear the British Prime Minister was not

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the only one who came to do battle in Brussels.

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We have the deal, what about the detail? News is really just coming

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in. In that dinner, just a few minutes ago really, EU leaders were

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seeing this new draft deal for the first time. Donald Tusk, the host of

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this meeting, the president of the European Council, he represents all

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of EU leaders, he said that this deal now tries to take in

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everybody's sensitivities. What is important to the Prime Minister as

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it takes in his main concerns. What we are hearing from a Downing Street

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source is that he has got approval for the emergency brake on EU

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migrant welfare, and that he can have cuts on EU migrant benefits for

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seven years. Now he had tried to come to this meeting and asked for a

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13 year period and he does have seven years. Downing Street said

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they would have guessed we would even have got that? Very important

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also for the Prime Minister is exempting Britain from EU wide of

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ever closer union. We are hearing he will get that in what is called

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treaty language, that is very important. That was fought against

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by a number of countries here, the fact that eventually might involve

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treaty change. Also we are hearing there has been an agreement on child

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benefit for EU migrants, those that won't get it paid at all and those

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that will have its index linked depending on where the actual

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children of EU migrants are living and working in the UK are. The

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welfare benefits will be matched to the cost of living of why those

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children are. That as well. Finally, this was a very vexed detail,

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protections from the UK from Eurozone legislation. They have

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another emergency brake there. We don't know get the details, but it

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will mean that the UK can raise the alarm when it feels that there are

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Eurozone rules coming in that can adversely affect the UK and the City

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of London as well. From those details we are hearing, David

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Cameron will be very pleased indeed. This is what he set out to get. We

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are expecting him to come and talk at a press conference at any moment

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now, and we have been hearing also from a number of the other prime

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ministers, who had to negotiate with him, that he was a very tough

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negotiator indeed. Of course his critics back home, this will not be

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good enough for them. They have said all along these are narrow issues

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and they do not fundamentally change Britain's relationship with the EU

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but Britain's Prime Minister and his team will be delighted. They will

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hold a cabinet meeting, expected tomorrow morning, they can then

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launch date for the referendum and the real campaigning can begin.

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Let's go straight to Downing Street and our political editor Laura

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Kuenssberg is there. From what you are hearing, what is your assessment

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of the deal and what it will mean in the months ahead? This is a rare

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political moment, to be honest it's a unique political moment. We know

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for certain now that you, me, every voter in the country will be given

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the chance to make their own decision about whether or not we

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should stay or leave the European Union most likely at the end of

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June. David Cameron has done something no Prime Minister has ever

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done before, sort and achieved some of his aims to change our

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relationship with the European Union while already being a member. The

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battle will be over just how big those changes are. Are they really

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substantial? The Prime Minister will claim, particularly of welfare, that

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they will make a real difference to the lives of people in this country,

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winning restrictions on EU migrants living in this country is a

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significant political achievement for him. The big difficulty that he

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has, not just because those claims will be tightly contested, is that

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he knows within his own party their senior figures who will not back

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him. When he gathers his cabinet here tomorrow morning, probably at

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9am, around the table there will be senior figures will not agree that

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he has got a deal that will really change our relationship with the EU

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for the better. One of them we learned tonight as his close

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confidant and political ally for many years, Michael Gove. When he

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looks them all in the eye tomorrow morning around the Cabinet table,

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that may feel rather different to the moment that Downing Street sees

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as a victory in Brussels tonight. But persuading them and of course

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the rest of us is a fight that is already under way. We are expecting

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to hear from David Cameron, the first words since this deal has been

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agreed, in just a few minutes. You can tell just how hard he has had to

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fight to get the deal that he wanted, given the negotiations, the

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wranglings that have gone on for so many hours? Yes, there is no

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question about that, not because this particular event, this summit

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dragged on and on and on, not just because of the fact that over the

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last few months we have seen him time and time again making different

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visits to different European capitals, taking every opportunity

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to press the flesh of his fellow UUNET -- EU leaders around the

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country, but if we think back to the reaction of many people around the

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European Union when he embarked on this adventure, what some people

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would call a gamble, he faced significant criticism, some of it

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public, some of it private, and more of it private, that he was raising

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the issue and many people believed he was doing it for his own

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political... I will interrupt you. Straight to Brussels and the Prime

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Minister. I will fly back to London tonight and update the Cabinet at

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10am tomorrow morning. This deal has delivered on the commitments I made

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at the beginning of this renegotiation process. Britain will

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be permanently out of ever closer union, never part of a European

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superstate. There will be tough new restrictions on access to our

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welfare system for EU migrants, no more something for nothing. Britain

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will never join the euro, and we have secured vital protections for

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our economy. And a full slate over the rules of the free trade single

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market, while remaining outside the euro -- a full slate. I believe

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there is enough for me to recommend that the United Kingdom remain in

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the United -- the European Union, having the best of both words. We

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will begin the parts of Europe that work for us, influencing the

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decisions that affect us, in the driving seat of the world's biggest

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market and with the ability to take action to keep our people safe. And

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we will be out of the parts of Europe that don't work for us. Out

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of the open borders, out of the bailouts, out of the euro, and out

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of those schemes in which Britain wants no part. Let me set out the

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details of exactly what we have agreed and why. I began this

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negotiation to address the concerns of the British people and today, all

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28 member states have signed up to concrete reforms in each of the four

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areas that I set out. British jobs and British business all depend on

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being able to trade with Europe on a level playing field, so our first

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aim in these negotiations was to get new protections for countries like

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ours, which are in the single market but not in the euro. Let me take you

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through what we have secured. We have permanently protected the pound

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and our right to keep it. For the first time that you have explicitly

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acknowledged that it has more than one currency. Responsibility for

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supervising the financial stability of the UK remains in the hands of

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the Bank of England, so we continue to keep our taxpayers and our savers

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safe. We have ensured that British taxpayers will never be made to bail

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out countries in the Eurozone. We have ensured that the UK's economic

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interests are protected. We have made sure that the Eurozone cannot

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act as a bloc to undermine the integrity of the free-trade single

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market. And we have guaranteed that British business will never face any

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discrimination for being outside the Eurozone for example our financial

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services firms can never be forced to relocate inside the Eurozone if

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want to trade in euros, just because they are based in the UK. And not

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only are these rules set out in a legally binding agreement, we have

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also agreed that should the UK or another non-euro member states feel

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that the rules are being broken they can actively activate an emergency

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safeguard unilaterally to ensure these rules are enforced. Let me be

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clear because there has been debate about this. Britain will have the

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power to pull this leave on our own. Our second aim in these negotiations

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was to make Europe more competitive, so we create jobs and make British

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families more financially secure. We have secured a declaration outlining

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a number of commitments in this area. For the first time the

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European Union will now say that competitiveness is, and I quote, and

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essential objective of the union. This is important, because it goes

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to the very heart of what Europe should be about. It means Europe

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will complete the single marketing services, this will make it easier

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for service -based companies like IT firms, to trade in Europe. Nowhere

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will this be more of an opportunity than in the United Kingdom, where

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thousands of service companies make up two thirds of our whole economy.

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It could add up to 2% our economy each year. That is a real

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improvement. The European Union will also complete the single market in

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capital. This will mean UK start-ups will be able to access more sources

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of finance for their business and it will also present new opportunities

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for the UK financial services industry. Europe will now also

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complete the single market in energy. This will allow more

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suppliers into the UK energy market, lowering bills and increasing

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investment across the continent. That is a real improvement as well.

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In addition we have secured commitments from Europe to complete

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trade and investment agreements with the fastest-growing and most dynamic

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economies around the world. We will leave David Cameron there, as he

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continues to give details of the deal that has been agreed

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unanimously in Brussels tonight. Let's go back to Downing Street and

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Laura Kuenssberg. A big political moment. From what you have heard,

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what is your assessment? Has he got enough? There is no question in the

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coming months there is going to be intensely fierce scrutiny on every

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single part of what David Cameron has only just begun to lay out

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tonight. In terms of his big picture, politically, no question

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what Downing Street will be most pleased about is the ability as he

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said that end a something for nothing culture for EU migrants come

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here and then have access to our benefit system. That is politically

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crucial and something many Conservative MPs have been looking

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for. Also there, that exemption from the UK to the fundamental, what had

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been a fundamental European Union principle, that countries would move

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closer and closer together, become more and more like. He mentioned

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protections for the City of London and British business and what is

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going on in the Eurozone. Overall we heard the Central motif of what he

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will say again and again in his campaign, the approach will be

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More than 1000 people packed into a Westminster Hall tonight, persuading

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people to leave the EU. There are Westminster Hall tonight, persuading

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people locked out of the building because we cannot get any more in.

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It tells you what the public view of this issue is. The BBC has been told

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this man will be joining their ranks. He is the Justice Secretary,

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a senior figure in government. Michael Gove is not confirming

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whether he is campaigning on leaving the EU. There has been whispers for

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weeks. He and David Cameron are confidants. Like their wives, family

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friends said to be on opposing sides. I think there are some people

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who have always been opposed to our membership of the European Union.

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There are some who would stay in the EU at any price. I think most of us

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want to see a reformed European Union. How are you doing? Could he

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join Mr Gove? As soon as the Cabinet has met, probably at 9am, ministers

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are allowed to go public if they want to leave the EU. Will Boris

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Johnson, who has discussed it with Mr Gove this week, become an

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official outer? Gove's suspected support is a coup for those who want

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to leave. I feel very heartened by it, I must say. And may many more. I

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tell you who I would like to see fronting the campaign, Nigel

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tell you who I would like to see They are all now crawling out from

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under their rucksacks at last. These people all want to leave the EU. It

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matters to them, which Conservative ministers are prepared

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matters to them, which Conservative David Cameron and which will go.

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There are surprising figures, David Cameron and which will go.

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certainly those from different political parties. Comrades and

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friends... LAUGHTER Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg there.

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We will have more on the breaking news, the deal which has finally

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been reached in Brussels later in the programme. Now to the day's

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other news. Nearly 40 people have died in US air

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strikes on a suspected training camp for Islamic state

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militants in Libya. The target was a senior Tunisian

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militant linked to the attacks on a museum in Tunis and the beach

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shootings in the resort of Sousse, Our security correspondent

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Frank Gardner reports. This is all that remains

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of what Washington says was a secret training camp in Libya belonging

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to the so-called Islamic State. At least 38 people were killed,

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most reportedly IS fighters. Local residents said

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there were multiple explosions. TRANSLATION: We woke up at night

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to the sound of explosions US Air Force warplanes

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carried out the raid, flying from RAF

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Lakenheath in Suffolk. Britain's Defence Secretary

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personally authorised America to use The main target was named

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as Noureddine Chouchane, a 35-year-old Tunisian former kick

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boxer also known as Sabir. He has been linked to two terror

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attacks in Tunisia last year including the one in Sousse

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that killed 38 tourists, We took this action against Sabir

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in the training camp after determining that both

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he and the Isil fighters at these facilities were planning external

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attacks on US and other Western This morning's Libya attack

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was the most significant US action It took place here at Sabratha,

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at a camp in the far west of the country very close

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to the Tunisian border. We are told that most of those

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killed were North African One of them is thought to have

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played a major role in last year's Yet IS's main strength

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is concentrated in the centre of the coast, around Sirte,

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and that is unlikely to be affected. Recruits are continuing to flow

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in each week from Africa It's going to take a lot more than

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bombing a specific training camp. It's going to take essentially

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rebuilding the state, strengthening the Libyan authorities

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so they are able to control the entire country,

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and making sure training camps But this is the reality

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in much of Libya now. A country awash with arms,

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competing militias, no rule of law, and no functioning

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central government. Libya is fast emerging as IS's

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second base, after Syria. It now boasts over

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5000 fighters there. Harper Lee - the author

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of To Kill A Mockingbird - The book was published in 1960

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and became one of the enduring Then last summer the literary world

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was taken by surprise when Harper Lee's second

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novel was published - Our arts correspondent David Sillito

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looks back at her life. To Kill A Mockingbird

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wasn't just a bestseller, On any list of best-loved authors

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you almost always see the name She did something that

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in our society is unspeakable. The character Atticus Finch

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was the moral heart of the story of racism, injustice and childhood,

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and bore many similarities Like his daughter Scout,

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the young Harper Lee was also She studied law for a while and

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then decided to write. Her inspiration for writing

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was a life in Monroeville, Alabama, in the turbulent days

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of the fight for civil rights. a black man murdered

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after being accused of flirting We find the defendant

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guilty as charged. The echoes of it all radiates

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through To Kill A Mockingbird, a book described by Oprah Winfrey

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as America's nation's novel. 50 years on she was still being

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garlanded with awards. I have my work cut out for me

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for the next 15 years. She had, as you can see from this

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letter, planned a whole series said it was hard to deal

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with the reaction to Mockingbird. I think when it really began

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to snowball and it really snowballed to the top of the mountain,

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I wonder if it sneaked up So the arrival of a second

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book Go Set A Watchman, more than 50 years later was more

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than unexpected. It was an instant bestseller but it

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wasn't To Kill A Mockingbird. I first read To Kill A Mockingbird

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when I was 12 or 13, and it made me want

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to be a better person. And then I read it again last year,

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at the age of 42 and it made me Generation after generation has been

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moved by Harper Lee's story of justice, decency and standing up for

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what is right. She really didn't need

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to write another word. The author Harper Lee,

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who has died at the age of 89. Back now to the news from Brussels,

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where David Cameron says he has agreed a deal to give the UK

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special status in the EU. It could now mean an EU referendum

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as soon as June this year. Our home editor, Mark Easton has

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been talking to a group of undecided voters

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in Warwickshire - to find out if they're any closer

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to making up their minds. It is a rare sight. Only at golf's

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Ryder Cup, Europe versus the USA, do you see Brits waving bee you flag.

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We have come to the scene of another cup, the Belfry in Warwickshire, to

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see if the people here would back David Cameron in a referendum. As

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the theatre played out in Brussels, the audience was watching back home.

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So are you watching a Prime Minister battling for Britain being pushed

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around in Europe? What do you think? He appears to be making a good fist

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of it. I personally would have liked to have seen him going a little bit

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stronger. I think the power we have as a nation within the EU, could

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have got us less confusion and not dragged this on as long as it has

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been. Do you think if he goes too strong and asks for too much that we

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might get nothing? What happens then? I think he is battling but at

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the same token, I think there is a degree of him being pushed around.

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One thing we do know is that Michael Gove the Justice Secretary will be

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campaigning to leave the EU. How does that make you feel? We will all

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be listening to what is going on in the U, the decisions David Cameron

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is trying to fight for and now a senior member of his parliament has

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said he wants us out anyway. I think it is backstabbing. I think

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said he wants us out anyway. I think put more pressure on David Cameron

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and made his job harder put more pressure on David Cameron

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has not got the backing of senior put more pressure on David Cameron

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members of Parliament. He needs his team around him. He is dealing in

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Brussels, meanwhile, backers -- back at home, what is happening? They are

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not all sat on their hands of a? What chance do we stand of deciding

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whether to be in or out of the EU if the government is not decided? Our

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voters may look familiar, last week they were among a jury which debated

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the issue in Lichfield. It was the same story tonight. I'm sitting here

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now, I'm not sure if there is any point in having a referendum. White?

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Think they should get on with it in Brussels, come up with the deal, job

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done. I think that my children and grandchildren, what difference will

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it make for them? The 19th hole is to addition a web oldsters try and

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make sense of the previous 18. In the bar at the Belfry tonight, there

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is confusion -- where golfers try and make sense.

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Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg is in Westminster

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This is a really big - significant political moment -

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one that could have huge implications for the United Kingdom

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- what's your assessment of the months ahead?

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Well, Sophie, it will be noisy, it will be fierce around here,

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certainly. But listening to those many voters, they are not sure what

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this is all about. It is very hard to predict how much this will

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capture the public imagination. I think we cannot be sure what the

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campaigns will be like. Politics is in a febrile place in 2016. Although

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the polls suggest a narrow majority of people would want us to stay in

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the EU, when people start to think about that question, that might

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change quite quickly. For very good reasons, most of us do not spend

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many hours thinking about our place in the European Union. But when it

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comes to an intense campaign, it is hard to tell how public opinion will

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shift. What is clear is David Cameron does not want to be the

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Prime Minister who led Britain out of the EU. He also does not want to

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be the Prime Minister who split the Conservative Party. He cannot be

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confident that he will not see us exit the EU. Thank you. David

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Cameron is still on his feet giving details of the deal in Brussels. You

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can follow it on the BBC News Channel.

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