EU leaders discuss the UK's renegotiations at a dinner in Brussels
David Cameron says progress has been made and he can see a "path" towards a deal next year
But he says there is a "lot of hard work" still to be done, including on the issue on curbs on benefits for EU migrants
Angela Merkel says she believes solutions can be found but she won't agree to anything discriminatory
UKIP's MP Douglas Carswell calls for a new party leader - but Nigel Farage tells him to "put up or shut up"
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Friday looks like being dominated by the fallout from the EU summit, after David Cameron's attempts to persuade leaders to accept his reform proposals.
We'll have all the reaction here, along with the rest of the day's politics.
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EU leaders are still locked in talks at the summit in Brussels.
Downing Street has said David Cameron told his counterparts:
Quote MessageThe levels of migration we have seen in a relatively short period of time are unprecedented, including the pressures this places on communities and public services. This is a major concern of the British people that is undermining support for the European Union. We need to find an effective answer to this problem. Countries need flexibility so they can make changes to their welfare systems to better manage migration. We have got to address this worry of the British people that they will be taken against their will into a political project. This is a fear that has undermined British public trust in the EU for a number of years. Are we going to find the flexibility to address the concerns of the UK and work together to fix this?"
BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, in Brussels, says trying to reform the EU is "arguably the biggest thing that David Cameron has ever tried to do as prime minister". He spoke for over half an hour over dinner and discussions are continuing into the night, she says.
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Eurosceptic Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan says David Cameron has "abandoned" reform demands he was making just a couple of years ago.
"We are left with these changes that won't change anything, I think basically the deal has already been done," he says.
"All that needs to be done is to stage the row."
Daniel Gros, of the Centre for European Policy Studies, says the EU cannot change fundamentally just for one member.
"One can change things at the margins," he says.
"But not much more."
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John Peet, editor of the Economist, says EU leaders already have a lot on their plate with terrorism, the migrant crisis and problems in the eurozone - before they start to consider the UK's reform demands.
"Many of them think that David Cameron has added a crisis of his own making by putting these demands down," he says.
Quote MessageThey regard this as a sort of self-inflicted crisis dreamt up by David Cameron."
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is in Brussels today as well, and has spoken to the BBC.
Mr Corbyn is calling for more clarity from David Cameron.
"He's come here for an argument without being very clear what the argument is about," he said. "Why can't he just say, 'actually, this argument really belongs within the Conservative Party and perhaps the Conservative Party should sort out what their problem is first.'"
Communities Secretary Greg Clark has been outlining exactly how much money local authorities can expect in this parliament.
But it comes in the context of a big change in the way local authorities are funded, which was outlined in November's Spending Review.
Chairman of the Local Government Association and Conservative peer, Gary Porter, joined Andrew Neil to discuss the settlement.
Conservative peer Gary Porter on latest deal
UKIP leader Nigel Farage says he does not have high hopes for the talks going on in Brussels.
Quote MessageI don't think anything will come out of tonight... the British renegotiation is well down the pecking order of things to be discussed. He won't get much time to say anything and there is at the moment no mood to compromise towards British demands here in Brussels at all."
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Image source, ReutersBelgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said David Cameron would not get everything he was asking for.
"In a negotiation there is a point of departure and then a point of arrival," he said. "The point of departure of David Cameron will not be the point of arrival."
David Cameron appeared to be the last one to line up for the traditional "family photograph" of all those attending the EU summit in Brussels - as he had been talking to a fellow leader.
But as you can see from the final photograph, he managed to make it to his place in time.
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MP Daniel Kawczynski has called for airstrikes against the Islamic State (IS, also known as ISIS and ISIL) group in Libya once a government of national unity is in place.
If we do not, "their tentacles will spread" he warned.
Quote MessageIf the situation with ISIS deepens and gets worse, we will have to contemplate helping the Libyan government to eliminate ISIS and that may require a bombing campaign."
If we do not, "their tentacles will spread" he told Mark Mardell on Radio 4's The World at One.
Daniel Kawczynski MP calls for airstrikes against the so-called Islamic State in Libya.
Image source, ReutersGreek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras - pictured here meeting with Prime Minister David Cameron at the summit - said as he arrived for the talks: "It's time for more co-operation in order to decrease the migrant flows and especially the non-refugee flows... We have to work harder in this direction.
"Today, we have a lot of things to discuss, not only about refugee issues but also about Brexit.
"This is no time for exits in Europe, it's time for more cooperation."
