The first Commons debate on the EU Referendum Bill is getting under way. We'll be bringing you all the key bits in text, and you can watch it as it happens via the 'live coverage' tab on this page. 

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And now back to the issue of the day - a free vote in the EU referendum. 

"It does not really apply to me, I will never be in a position where I need to abide by collective responsibility," says Philip Davies, Conservative MP for Shipley. 

He adds: "Inevitably, ministers will be able to campaign on both sides. It's perfectly reasonable to have views on both sides."

But how will David Cameron fare with regard to renegotiations? 

Mr Davies said he believes he will get "next to nothing" - but that it will be "dressed up as a great triumph". It is similar to what happened to Harold Wilson in 1975 he adds, saying: "History repeats itself."

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"I'm completely sure Britain is much better in the EU rather than out of it", says Lord Falconer. 

"If you're in a relationship you intend to continue, you don't have one foot out of the door" when you're in discussions about it, he adds. 

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Lord Falconer praised former Labour leader Ed Miliband, saying he was "incredibly impressive" in the run up to the election and had given all he had to the campaign. 

He said the party should, however, have addressed "much earlier" people's opinion of the party "in relation to the economy" - and also "defended other aspects" of Labour's record when they were in power from 1997 to 2010. 

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Labour peer Lord Falconer - who would have been in charge of his party's negotiations to form a new government in the event of a hung parliament - says the general election result shows that the public was "not willing to trust Labour". 

"They wanted a more secure position," he adds - a more secure position than either Labour, or a coalition government, could offer.

The shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt told Today earlier that Labour should be prepared to carry out a radical overhaul of the secondary school system and possibly to drop GCSEs:

Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has been taking part in Foreign Office questions in the House of Commons.  

Asked by the SNP's Alex Salmond about yesterday's row on a free vote in the EU referendum, Mr Hammond said the prime minister feels he was "misinterpreted" and that he has "always been consistent". 

Theresa Villiers has been asked what she understood the prime minister's position to be on whether or not to allow ministers a free vote in the EU referendum.

The Northern Ireland secretary replied: "I think the position is absolutely clear.

"The prime minister is determined to reform our relationship with Europe and to give the people of the United Kingdom the chance to vote on that in a referendum. It's a policy I absolutely support."

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Labour’s Lord Falconer will join Jo Coburn throughout Tuesday’s Daily Politics, and he will debate assisted dying with Agnes Fletcher, the director of Living and Dying Well.

Conservative Philip Davies and the SNP’s Patrick Grady will talk about the EU referendum bill being debated in the Commons today. 

Deputy Labour Leader contender Angela Eagle will explain why she thinks she should get the job. Cheltenham MP Alex Chalk will talk about the potholes in his area after this film from his town is shown on air.  

And we’ll hear which foreign leader was compared with Nicola Sturgeon when she appeared on US TV’s Daily Show.

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Police in Scotland are understood to be investigating allegations that Lord Janner abused a boy while on a trip there in the 1970s. 

This leads to the possibility he could be charged in Scotland - while he has been deemed unfit to stand trial in England. 

One of the lawyers representing alleged victims in England, Peter Garsden, told the Victoria Derbyshire programme: 

MPs are to debate the EU referendum bill later, which is expected to pass comfortably at its second reading. 

But what is the planned referendum all about? Read our guide here .

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