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The Daily Mail front page is a comment piece on the EU vote. It says "we are at a crossroads in our island history" as voters "decide nothing less than what sort of country we want to live in". It asks if the UK is to be "self-governing" or "better assured" by a "statist, unelected" Brussels?  

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The Independent's i has taken a slightly different line, saying David Cameron has told MPs "not to be bullied by Eurosceptics".

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The Guardian says that David Cameron is moving towards signing up Boris Johnson to the Conservative "In" campaign by "signalling that he is prepared to accede to the London mayor’s demand to assert the sovereignty of parliament."

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The Daily Telegraph says that David Cameron has "prompted anger by telling his MPs to ignore the views of eurosceptic grassroots members and Conservative associations ahead of the E, externaluropean Union referendum."

• David Cameron will meet the President of the European Council this morning to continue negotiations about the draft deal on Britain's membership of the European Union. David Cameron requested the meeting with Donald Tusk - their second this week - to discuss the proposals, and the reaction to them.
• Britain is more than doubling its spending on aid for Syrians who have fled from the civil war.
• Profits at Shell have halved because of the collapse in oil prices. 
• The Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, says he will leave Ecuador's embassy in London tomorrow after more than three years - if a UN ruling goes against him.
• The energy regulator is to investigate electricity and gas tariffs offered by the charity, Age UK.
• The former Chief of the Defence Staff - Lord Bramall - has called on the Metropolitan Police to review the way it handles claims of historical sex abuse. He has spoken to the BBC in his first broadcast interview since finding out last month that he would face no further action in connection with allegations he was part of a VIP paedophile ring. Lord Bramall said detectives had told him little about the claims, and hadn't investigated them properly

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Former Evening Standard reporter Keith Dovkants followed Lord Lucan for years and claims on Radio 4's PM that police said it was not "politically or financially possible" for them to follow up alleged sighting of the missing peer in Africa. 

A High Court judge has ruled that Lucan is presumed to be dead. A death certificate has been issued 42 years after he vanished when his children's nanny Sandra Rivett was bludgeoned to death in London.

Mr Johnson says in-work benefits are a not a "draw factor" for migrants, saying that net UK immigration was lower during his stint as Home Secretary because of the economic downturn. "If your economy is so bad, and if you're in bad times, people are not going to want to come and work here." He adds that the UK has the most people working abroad in developed countries - more than Poland, more than any other country in Europe. "This is a two-way process," he says. "Go into a pub in Paris, go to a pub in Madrid, you will hear English voices."

Alan Johnson, leader of the Labour 'In' campaign for EU membership, tells Today that David Cameron has made "progress" in EU negotiations around migrant benefits.

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Erna Solberg, the prime minister of Norway, is one of those who will open the fundraising conference for Syrian refugees in London later. Why has so little cash been raised so far, she is asked? 

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Conferences to raise money for Syria have not been as successful as they could have been. Last year's conference raised less than half of the target - although the UK has quite a good record in raising cash. But in general, says Chief Today correspondent Matthew Price, the figures for money raised to help Syrian refugees are "absolutely pathetic". "Less than half of the $8.4bn that the UN asked for last year [was raised] - that is a minuscule proportion of the GDP of the UK, or western Europe, or of the US - certainly of the world."

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Former Tory chancellor Lord Lawson has been named as the chairman of a group campaigning for the UK to leave the EU.

The 83-year-old will chair Vote Leave, one of two groups vying to be the official Out campaign in the EU referendum.

Read more here.

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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has said he will turn himself over to UK police on Friday if a UN panel rules he has not been unlawfully detained.

He took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in west London in June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over a sexual assault claim he denies.

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The EU reform package is pretty much a "done deal", says deputy political editor Norman Smith. On the domestic front, though, we can expect a move to bring forward some legislation to reassert UK sovereignty, probably in the form of beefed up powers for the Supreme Court to scrutinise EU laws. However, there's no indication these powers will include a veto of EU laws, so the move would be "primarily symbolic", he says.

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More talks for David Cameron today on the EU draft reform deal, but reaction at home is also important. Will Eurosceptics in the Cabinet break ranks before the agreed deadline? Assistant political editor Norman Smith says Downing Street are anxious not to look too chirpy" they are "pretty pleased about the ways things are going" because no Cabinet minister has broken ranks, and in the Commons yesterday Mr Cameron "did not receive a complete roasting from his backbenchers".

Reaction from EU member states seems to be generally sympathetic, he adds.

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Many rural bus services in England and Wales face being wiped out by council budget cuts, campaigners have warned.

Research by the Campaign for Better Transport says subsidies to routes have been reduced by £78m since 2010, with another £27m under threat this year.

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David Cameron says he is "happy to be judged" on his EU reform deal after facing questions from MPs.

London Mayor Boris Johnson was among those to question the proposals - which pave the way for the UK's EU referendum to be held in June - asking how they would restore UK sovereignty.

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David Cameron and European Council president Donald Tusk will assess the reaction to their EU reform proposals when they meet later.

The proposals will pave the way for the UK's EU referendum if other leaders back them at a summit later this month.

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David Cameron has pledged an additional £1.2bn for people fleeing the conflict in Syria, as he prepares to host a donors conference in London later. The money will be used for education, jobs and humanitarian relief. 

Welcome back to our rolling coverage of UK political news. A Syria donors' conference will take place in London today and will urge participating countries to do more to tackle the Syria humanitarian crisis. And in the Commons there will be a debate on parliamentary sovereignty in light of the EU renegotiations. Here's a look at some of the main UK politics stories.

The EU has dominated Wednesday's politics, and is likely to loom large on Thursday as David Cameron meets European Council president Donald Tusk, and MPs debate the sovereignty of Parliament in the Commons.

Earlier the PM said he was "happy to be judged" on his EU reform deal after facing a grilling from MPs. The BBC's Laura Kuenssberg thinks he avoided - for now at least - an "open insurrection" in the Commons.

Meanwhile, the Vote Leave campaign has appointed former chancellor Lord Lawson as its chairman, but one of its supporters, Conservative MP Steve Baker, dismissed talk of a merger with the rival Leave.EU group when he appeared on Newsnight.