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The secretary general of Nato and former Prime Minister of Norway Jens Stoltenberg has suggested the organisation would prefer to see a strong Britain within the EU. He said he did not want to interfere in "a domestic debate in Britain", but said that we were living in times of "turmoil" - and it was better to work together.

Pressed, he said he favoured a:

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Downing Street says the Government is "making progress" in its renegotiation of the terms of the UK's European Union membership "but there's more work to do" in all areas.

The Prime Minister's official spokeswoman said there had been "a breakthrough" over restricting in-work benefits for migrants but these were "on-going, live negotiations" and officials from the European Council, the Commission and the UK were still trying to find solutions.

David Cameron has proposed that migrants should wait four years before getting in-work benefits and the spokeswoman said he would only accept an alternative if it was equally as "effective and powerful".

The President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, is expected to table proposals tomorrow which all European Union leaders will be asked to sign up to.

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The Conservative MP and former Cabinet minister Peter Lilley says applying an emergency brake - as being proposed under Britain's negotiations on its EU membership - where migrants would not be allowed to claim benefits on arrival - would not make much difference to migration. He told The World at One: 

He added that what would convince him to vote to stay in the EU in the referendum would be if the Prime Minister came back with assurances that Britain could get back powers from Europe. Other members, he said, were "moving on an escalator to a single state to prop up the euro".

A spokesman for the European Commission, Margaritis Schinas, has told a news conference in Brussels that progress has been made in recent negotiations on Britain's relationship with Europe - but there is still no agreement.

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On the EU referendum, Bernard Jenkin is asked if he is happy with the Vote Leave campaign after reports in recent weeks of a failed attempt to unseat its campaign director Dominic Cummings. Mr Jenkin replies:

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Labour MP Matthew Pennycook says he does not believe May's elections in Scotland, Wales and London will prove a "make or break" moment for Jeremy Corbyn's leadership but he does accept it will be a "clear signal" of whether the leader's politics are resonating with people. While Mr Corbyn has a huge mandate, he says he has a "responsibility" to talk about the issues that people care about and show he can provide solutions to the problems of welfare, immigration and housing. 

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Would the UK be more or less secure if it left the European Union?

NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg has suggested that the organisation would prefer a strong Britain within the EU.

He was speaking to the World At One's Mark Mardell and the full interview will be on Radio 4 after 1300 - listen via the Live Coverage tab at the top of this page.

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UKIP has claimed the prime minister is playing the public "for fools" over his attempt to renegotiate the terms of the UK's membership of the EU. The party's deputy leader Paul Nuttall said the process was a "sham" and a "charade":

There will be one urgent question in the House of Commons later. Shadow Health Secretary Heidi Alexander will be asking her counterpart Jeremy Hunt, what steps are being taken to improve the finances of NHS Trusts.

Interesting comments from Tory MP Bernard Jenkin on the Daily Politics about the Kids Company investigation. He says the Public Administration Committee which he chairs is not willing to engage in a blame game about who was responsible for the demise of the charity and the waste of public money. He says too many Commons select committees are intent on "putting people up against a wall and shooting them", claiming this confrontational approach has created a "climate of fear" around Whitehall. He rejects claims his committee has gone easy on ministers, saying it gave Cabinet Office minister Oliver Letwin a "severe grilling" when he gave evidence to them and disagreed with his account of what had happened, saying he got it wrong. 

Mr Jenkin adds that he will be making his views known to the prime minister when he meets David Cameron this afternoon.

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Lib Dem MP Norman Lamb says he backs a four-year brake on EU migrant benefits, describing it as a "reasonable proposition". But he says the issue is a "bit of a sideshow" set against the central question of whether "our destiny is in Europe or should we retreat from that". He goes on to say that there should be safeguards to protect the interests of the UK and other countries outside the EU to stop policies being "railroaded through" by the eurozone.

Victoria Derbyshire

A Conservative MP has dismissed the proposal of an emergency brake to limit EU immigration as "a nothing". A possible deal with other EU countries ahead of Britain's referendum on EU membership could involve Britain being allowed to use such a brake to deny in-work benefits to EU migrants if it could prove public services were under excessive strain. 

Eurosceptic Anna-Marie Trevelyan, who became an MP in 2015, told the Vivtoria Derbyshire programme the problem with the idea of an emergency brake was that it's "still saying the Europeans would decide",  whereas "the message we want to get through is that Britain needs to take control of its own borders". 

The pro-European Conservative MP Damien Green said it appeared the Prime Minister was "making progress" and it was a "serious negotiation on serious subjects". Mr Green, who is part of the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign, told the Derbyshire programme "those that said this was impossible have been proved wrong".

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Debate about whether Britain should stay in the European Union or go should not be just about migrants and benefits, says Labour's Chuka Umunna. The former shadow cabinet minister, who backs staying in the EU, told the BBC the upcoming referendum was also about "the future of the country", Britain's influence on the world stage and "working with other countries that share our values".

Only five members of the Cabinet could end up backing the EU "Brexit" campaign, writes commentator Tim Montgomerie, external in an article for the CapX website. He predicts those would be Iain Duncan Smith, Chris Grayling, Priti Patel, Theresa Villiers and John Whittingdale. In a wide-ranging article looking at the referendum and its possible impact on domestic politics over the next five years, he suggests that Chancellor George Osborne "probably won’t even stand to be the next Tory leader" when David Cameron makes way. 

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority has published the details , externalof its investigation in to expenses claimed by the MP Simon Danczuk. It follows complaints from Liberal Democrats in his Rochdale constituency. The watchdog confirms the investigation is into expenses claimed for accommodation. 

The BBC's assistant political editor Norman Smith says the complaint relates to accommodation for his children in London.     

Mr Danczuk was suspended by the Labour Party in December after he admitted sending lewd texts to a 17-year-old girl.    

Arif Ansari
Politics correspondent, BBC North West Tonight

It has been decided that the expenses watchdog IPSA will investigate the expenses of Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk, not the police. But Greater Manchester Police say they will be kept informed. On Sunday, Liberal Democrats in Rochdale made a complaint of fraud which the MP absolutely denies.