UKIP leader Nigel Farage dances along to the Great Escape theme tune on the party's referendum bus, which continues its UK-wide tour ahead of the vote on 23 June.Addressing supporters, he said: "We want to escape from political union because we want our country back."  

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Staying in the EU undermines UK security and the country's overall defence "which is guaranteed to us by Nato", Colonel Richard Kemp tells BBC News.

"As the EU gains ever closer union.. that will include military union within the EU, which will be a competitor to Nato," he says, adding: "We'll see money flow from Nato into the EU army which will undermine Nato."

More on the Australian family facing deportation from Scotland, that we reported on during prime minister's question time.

SNP Westminster leader Angus Robertson raised the case of seven-year-old Lachlan Brain, who lives with his family in the Scottish Highlands and uses Gaelic as his first language.

Pressing Chancellor George Osborne to speak to the home secretary and prime minister to "get this sorted out", he questioned why the family faced deportation when they had arrived under a Scottish Government initiative, backed by the Home Office, to attract people to live and work in the region.

The chancellor said he understood the family didn't meet the immigration criteria - which prompted Mr Robertson to hit back that this was "not good enough".

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In a long metaphor, the King Willem-Alexander cites a long list of national flowers, including the Dutch tulip and French fleur-de-lis, which he says make up the "European bouquet".  

This vision of Europe is "not complete without English rose", he adds. 

Adding that "every member state must feel at home in the Union", he says that MEPs have an "essential role" in bridging national and EU-level decision making. 

The EU, he adds, can "only move forward if the electorates listen to each other". 

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King Willem-Alexander commemorates the victims of the terror attacks in Brussels earlier this year, and tells MEPs that they have a "difficult" task at the moment. 

"Much of what we Europeans hold dear is under pressure," he adds. 

After citing the influence of European writers and thinkers on Dutch society, he says that "great things are rarely achieved at the national level".

He adds that European politicians must also seek to remember "all that we have achieved" whilst dealing with serious problems, and that values considered universal in Europe are "not self-evident everywhere". 

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Committee chair Pete Wishart kicks off proceedings by asking about the criticisms of the remain campaign as "project fear", and if the campaign in Scotland differs from the Britain-wide campaign.

Scotland Stronger In's John Edward says he "made quite a small name for myself by coining the phrase 'project cheer'," because "for me the positives are all there...so there's no need to go into attack".

He adds that "it's harder to go on the attack when you don't have a white paper on the other side to attack".

He adds that the campaign has taken staff from both sides of the Scottish independence referendum. It's director of "grassroots engagement" worked for Better Together and its media manager worked for Yes Scotland two years ago.

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SNP employment spokesman Neil Gray describes the speech as "utterly vacuous" with little relevance to people in Scotland. 

On the Higher Education Bill, he says there is a "great spectre" hanging over the bill - that of students "facing tuition fees of more than £9,000".

He notes that in 2010, the Chancellor George Osborne promised a constituent that the Conservatives would scrap tuition fees.

"What a Damascene conversion! He now wants to see tuition fees rise even further," he says.

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Before approving the agenda, today's European Parliament sitting will begin with a short speech from Dutch King Willem-Alexander – his first to MEPs since he came to the throne in 2013.

Willem-Alexander became the country’s first king since 1890, following the abdication of his then 75-year-old mother Queen Beatrix.

The Netherlands currently holds the EU’s rotating presidency, making it responsible for organising meetings of the Council of Ministers – where member states debate and approve EU laws.

The country’s presidency is due to finish at the end of next month, when the role will be taken up by Slovakia. 

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On Labour's amendment, which regrets potential tuition fee increases, Jo Johnson says it is ironic that Labour are opposing the measure given that they introduced tuition fees during Tony Blair's government.

"The party opposite might have changed their views on that entire era but we on this side will refuse to allow student learning to suffer."

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Jo Johnson turns to the government's proposals on new universities.

The proposals laid out in the government white paper (Success as a Knowledge Economy) aim to make it easier for education providers, including private institutions to become higher education institutions and offer their own degrees.

Mr Johnson says these proposals are ""exactly what the sector needs".

Angela Eagle intervenes to say that Labour supports the measures but has some reservations about how quickly the new changes will be introduced and the nature of the probation period for such institutions.

Jo Johnson welcomes Labour's acceptance of the general principle.

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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has called on Tata to "give time for us to work out this industry." 

Speaking to the media during a demonstration of steel workers and unions in Westminster, Mr Corbyn said the UK's steel workers "must not be sent down the road" and the "industry must not be destroyed".

Workers, he said, "shouldn't be put through this trauma", adding that Labour was "putting pressure on the government" to help the industry.

He called for government intervention "where necessary", the end to "Chinese steel dumping", and an "underwriting for industry to make sure it can invest and grow and provide us with the basis of our manufacturing economy".

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Minister Jo Johnson defends the government's position on tuition fees arguing that it will ensure universities "offer best value for money for students".

This, he maintains, will be improved by the government "driving up the quality of the teaching and the student experience".

He believes the changes are need because the UK currently lags behind other countries when it comes to university attendance. 

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Reality Check

The claim: British holidaymakers would have to pay more to use their phones abroad if we left the European Union.

Reality Check verdict: It's fair for the EU to take credit for the abolition of roaming charges next year, but we can't say that if the UK left the EU that British consumers wouldn't still benefit from the deal, or that prices would go up.

Read the full Reality Check here.

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Falklands War veteran Major General Julian Thompson tells the World at One's Martha Kearney the UK is currently heading towards a unified EU armed force.

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The panel moves on to discussing PMQs, which featured Chancellor George Osborne and Labour's Angela Eagle this week.

Minister Andrea Leadsom says Ms Eagle was "very entertaining" and described it as "a very feisty" PMQs.

Labour's Kate Green describes Ms Eagle as a "great parliamentary performer" and says it was "great to see a woman taking that role at the despatch box".

"We're all immensely proud of Angela," she adds.