Away from the PM's talks in Brussels, UKIP MEP Patrick O'Flynn said it would not be "sensible" for the party to have a leadership contest in the run up to the EU referendum.

His comments came after UKIP's only MP Douglas Carswell told BBC Essex the party needed a "fresh face" at the top. 

Mr O'Flynn, who has been critical of Mr Farage's leadership in the past, said "nobody had done more" for the party than Mr Farage to "bring about this referendum". 

He added Mr Farage had "earned the right" to lead UKIP during the referendum. He said it wasn't the time to be "drawn into internal disputes".

Carole Walker
Political correspondent

Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has denied the government will drop its demand for a four year delay before EU workers can claim benefits in the UK.

He said the government is "guaranteeing to fight for these changes". He told Radio 4's Today: "Britain is deadly serious about reducing the pull,  the attractiveness of our benefit system". 

Mr Fallon acknowledged it would be difficult to get a deal on this as it "cuts across a freedom which other believe in, so it will be very hard work to get there".

He said the government wants something which is not "just cobbled together", it needs changes which are "binding and irreversible". Mr Fallon said the real significance of last night's negotiations was that other EU countries accepted the need for reform in all four of the areas where Britain is seeking changes.

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Katya Adler, BBC's Europe editor, said there was no guarantee the UK would get an EU reform deal in February saying there might be another summit after. 

Referring to David Cameron's speech at dinner in Brussels on Thursday evening, she said it was "unprecedented" for one European leader to spend 45 minutes talking about what they wanted from the others. 

She added that Germany's Angela Merkel spoke mostly about Britain rather than migrants during her press conference mentioning treaty change but adding "not now". 

She said Germany wants to keep Britain in "the pact" because they were more politically aligned than with other countries.

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Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said treaty changes was needed in order for the UK to get what it wants from EU renegotiation.

He insisted the government had not ripped up its manifesto promise to curb in-work benefits for migrants - the biggest sticking point for other EU members.

Mr Fallon said "we're determined to get change" on migrant benefits, he said the "pull" of the UK benefit system must be lessened, so people don't come here with an "automatic right" and the negotiation will work out how to achieve that over the next few months. 

He said it won't be a "short-term" solution and the UK needed "binding" and "irreversible" changes and "yes these changes have to be done legally".

He said "absolutely" treaty change was needed.

He said it had been a "significant week" with the passing of the EU referendum bill - and it was important not to forget all four of the UK demands for EU reform, saying they were all "hard areas".

UKIP leader Nigel Farage is reacting to last night's EU talks, suggesting David Cameron "came, saw, and got hammered".

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Douglas Carswell has put the boot into Nigel Farage this morning, stopping short of calling for the UKIP leader to go but saying the party needs a "fresh face" if it to progress. Here is more of what he told the BBC's Simon Dedman. Read our full story.

What do the newspapers make of David Cameron's progress on EU negotiations overnight and his chance of getting the deal he wants? Here's a flavour of this morning's coverage. 

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Labour MP Kate Hoey, the co-chair of the Labour Leave campaign group, says she expected a poor result from David Cameron’s negotiations at the EU summit and that after "all the hype" the UK has "ended up with two sentences". She told the BBC that she "fears for the future" if the UK votes to remain within the EU. 

Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan tells the BBC that the UK is engaged in a "haka of simulated aggression to cover up the fact that nothing is changing" in its relationship with the EU. He attacks what he describes as the PM's "banging on the table", suggesting very few people will be swayed by whether a four-year ban on migrants' benefits is negotiated or not and what is needed is a much more fundamental rethink of the purpose and justification of remaining a member. 

Here's some breaking news away from the EU summit.

Douglas Carswell, UKIP's only MP, has told the BBC that the party needs a "fresh face" as leader, with "an optimistic message" for the future. 

The Clacton MP said it "needs to change gear and to change its management if it's to go the next level". 

He did not mention party leader Nigel Farage directly, but told BBC Essex "no party is defined by any one person". 

Mr Carswell has said he does not want the job of leader himself = but Mr Farage has responded by telling him "to put up or shut up".

Alex Forsyth
Political correspondent

Alex Forsyth, the BBC's Europe political correspondent in Brussels, has been considering what David Cameron said last night and what progress has been made in the EU talks.

“There were some ideas, we understand, kicked around the dinner table last night. So there was the suggestion they might be able to come up with some sort of legally binding agreement – not treaty change immediately, I think that’s pretty clear, but even Angela Merkel suggesting they might be open to it down the line.

“So yes, compromise possible but they didn’t talk about the form last night, merely the substance.

“So now what will happen is that there’s the political will to find some sort of solution. The officials have to go away and hammer out the technical details, with the hope of bringing something concrete back by February.

“That though is a very, very short timeframe – particularly in the life of the European Union.”

Laura Kuenssberg
BBC political editor

Just eight weeks. Can a deal really be done to secure the UK's place in the European Union by the middle of February - when the next EU summit is due?

After hours of talks with the other EU leaders over dinner, Prime Minister David Cameron emerged, unusually, to do a late night press conference.

He didn't quite "battle through the night" for his deal, as he had said earlier, but it was after midnight.

He said there was "very good progress" in his talks, but that changing the rules of the Union will be "very difficult".

Again and again the Prime Minister emphasised just how much hard work there will have to be to get the deal done.

There was no new detail of how it might conclude, no specifics, just a pathway forward.

But his appeal to his EU counterparts was a wider political call for help - he referred to the tightening polls at home, the support of those who want to stay in the EU appearing to erode.

To pass the political test he set himself, he needs his fellow EU leaders to do more than show willing but to accept at least strands of his ideas.

Let's just recap on what the prime minister said last night.

Britain, he said was attempting "something very difficult", that had not been tried by another country, in aiming to renegotiate its position inside the European Union at a time of its choosing.

While a "big step forward" had been taken for a "better deal" for Britain and "there is a path through this" towards a deal, he said there is still a lot of "hard work to be done".

On the most contentious issue of curbs on benefits for EU migrants, he added: "In terms of welfare, no, I haven't put any other proposals on the table - I have put my four-year proposal on the table and it remains on the table."

He said the commission had said they believed there were "solutions" that could be found.

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Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of events in Westminster and beyond. David Cameron has completed a gruelling evening of talks in Brussels over the UK's EU renegotiations. He held a press conference at just after midnight, telling reporters that progress had been made and he could see a "pathway" towards a final agreement. But other EU leaders have cautioned that no concrete agreements have been reached on the UK's key demands and that further work is needed. We'll be analysing what the state of play is as EU leaders continue to discuss other issues on the second day of their meeting.