BBC Radio 5 Live has been speaking to voters around the country this morning to gauge reaction to the election result.

Gareth, a long-standing Conservative Party member from Matlock in Derbyshire, describes the outcome as a "disaster" for his party.

He says he is angry that a "cabal" of officials who "made the decision that led to this" won't be held accountable, while MPs are kicked out of Parliament.

Gareth also accuses the party of being condescending towards its members over how it selects its leaders, and adds: "I think as a member my vote should count as much as an MP."

He calls for a "practical and sensible" approach for the Tories going forward and not for "lurching to the right", telling the BBC he thinks a caretaker leader should take charge for a while.

• You can listen to this morning's conversation on BBC Sounds or in the stream at the top of this page

Vanessa Clarke
Education reporter

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The list of newly elected MPs includes more former comprehensive school pupils than ever before.

63% of the 650 MPs in the new Parliament went to a comprehensive school.

That’s compared with 54% in 2019 according to analysis from the Sutton Trust, an organisation that campaigns for social mobility.

Around 13% went to a grammar school, and 23% were privately educated, down from 29% in 2019. (Around 7% of the population go to independent schools).

The vast majority of MPs also went to university - 20% went to either Oxford or Cambridge and a further 35% went to other Russell Group universities.

The Sutton Trust says this election “represents a sea change in the education backgrounds of the governing party” but there is still a long way to go before it is “truly representative” of the population.

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The first images of Keir Starmer's top team meeting together in No 10 have just been released.

The cabinet meeting is taking place this morning ahead of the new prime minister holding a news conference this afternoon.

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Georgia Roberts
Scotland political correspondent

There’s one constituency still waiting to hear who their new MP will be this morning.

The recount is underway in Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire. The outcome had originally been expected at 05:00 on Friday but the Returning Officer said there was a discrepancy between the verified votes total and the provisional number of votes counted.

The SNP candidate for the seat, Drew Hendry, has already admitted defeat. The SNP had held the seat before the election (under its old boundaries), and their main challengers, the Liberal Democrats, had viewed it as a long shot at the beginning of this campaign - despite the fact it had once been home to their former leader Charles Kennedy.

It’s expected they’ll win here today once again, taking their gains up in Scotland to four and landing them six Scotland MPs - just a handful behind a decimated SNP, who finished on just nine seats.

Drew Hendry won’t be attending the count because of prior commitments but there are plenty of chipper Liberal Democrats to be found, and their candidate local businessman Angus MacDonald is on his way - and rumoured to be turning up in full Highland dress.

Members from Labour's cabinet have started to arrive at Downing Street for its first-ever meeting.

A few moments ago, we saw Rachel Reeves, David Lammy, Wes Streeting and Shabana Mahmood walk through the doors of No 10. Here are some of the latest images:

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Alison Holt
Social affairs editor

As the electoral dust settles and Sir Keir Starmer continues with government appointments, time to look at some of the new MPs he could call on.

With Labour’s focus on restoring public services, it will have to tackle the deep-rooted problems facing both care services for adults, and children’s social care, supporting vulnerable children and families.

Two names with expertise jump out. Josh MacAlister, the newly elected MP for Whitehaven and Workington, led the review into children’s social care set up by the Conservative government.

He set out a plan for reform, including a shift to services that provide families with early support.

And Dr Anna Dixon is the new Labour MP for Shipley. She used to be Chief Executive of the Centre for Ageing Better and most recently led the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Commission aimed at reimagining adult care services for the future.

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A flurry of new cabinet ministers have arrived at Downing Street in the last few moments.

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband and Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn have all waved at the cameras before walking through the famous No 10 front door.

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While the Tories examine what went wrong and look to appointing a new leader - one man who appears to have ruled himself out is the former Chancellor Jeremy Hunt.

GB News political editor Christopher Hope reports Hunt has told him: "That time has passed."

In 2019 Hunt was one of the names who went up against and lost out to Boris Johnson when Theresa May resigned.

He also had a second failed leadership race to succeed Johnson in 2022 when he stepped down - that race was eventually won by Liz Truss.

Sean Curran
Parliamentary correspondent

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Rishi Sunak has said he will stay on as Conservative leader - for now.

It's still not clear how and when his party would choose who will lead it in opposition. The scale of the Tories' defeat means some would be leadership candidates are no longer in parliament.

But the arguments about the best direction for the party and who is to blame for its historic defeat have already started.

The Conservatives saw their vote squeezed by both Reform UK and the Liberal Democrats.

One cabinet minister who lost her seat - Penny Mordaunt, who often talked about as a future leader -warned her party not to move too far from the centre

But the new father of the House of Commons, the senior Conservative Sir Edward Leigh, told BBC Look North that the Tories should invite Reform voters, and Nigel Farage, to join the party.

He said the Conservatives had been completely trashed in the election because the right-wing vote was divided.

"It has been a really bad result - no two ways about it." Those are the thoughts of former Home Secretary Suella Braverman this morning.

Speaking to a reporter outside her home, Braverman says "hundreds of excellent Tory MPs have been kicked out of office".

Asked whether she's considering a Tory leadership bid, she says there's no announcements yet and insists the party has "got to take our time".

"We are now seeing Keir Starmer install his government, scrap the Rwanda plan for example," she adds.

"Years of hard work, Acts of Parliament, millions of pounds spent on a scheme which - had it been delivered properly - would have worked.

"There are big problems on the horizon which I'm afraid will be caused by Keir Starmer.

More now from voters in Bury, which narrowly voted Tory in 2019 but got behind Labour on Thursday.

A key issue in the area is the state of the health service.

Stephanie Tryhuba tells BBC Breakfast she wants to see urgent measures to tackle the "awful" shortage of GP appointments and the fact it is "impossible" to get a dental appointment.

She believes the government will be able to do that if it commits to the funding the NHS.

However, while Stephanie is confident Sir Keir Starmer can deliver, Tina Harrison - who runs Trinity Foodbank in nearby Radcliffe - is less optimistic about the government's offering on poverty.

She says Labour's manifesto didn't have "enough detail" to explain how it would help working families who rely on charity and don't have enough to feed their children by the end of the month.

Tina says some families are caught between staying on benefits or working, because taper rates - the amount a person can earn before their welfare is reduced - leave them caught between a rock and a hard place.

Before Thursday's election, Bury was home to two of the UK's most marginal constituencies.

In 2019, the Tories won Bury South by 402 votes and Bury North by just 105 votes.

This week, both swung heavily towards Labour and BBC Breakfast has been out and about there this morning trying to find out what people want to see from the new government.

Dave Ashton, who runs a picture framing business, says he has struggled with repaying a pandemic loan and rising costs.

He wants the new government to reform the "archaic" business rates system to "level the playing field" with online firms paying less tax.

Laura Barnes, who cares for her 99-year-old grandmother while working full-time, says more needs to be done to help "ignored and overlooked" unpaid carers, who provide the "scaffolding that holds the NHS and social care together".

"They need to work on a national strategy for carers, they need to increase the carers' allowance and I think paid leave for carers is a good thing," she adds.

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As we've been reporting, most of Starmer's new government ministers are Labour MPs, but interestingly, three are not.

Since they haven't been elected, they have to be made peers to allow them to sit into the House of Lords and be ministers. They include:

James Timpson, who leads the Prison Reform Trust charity, has become prisons minister. His company, the UK key-cutters and shoe repair chain Timpson, have a long-standing policy of employing ex-offenders.

Also appointed is Richard Hermer KC to attorney general - a post that many thought may go to shadow attorney general Emily Thornberry.

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And Sir Patrick Vallance - best known by the public for appearing at news conferences during Covid - is also being made a peer to become a science minister in the new government.

Nick Eardley
Political correspondent, reporting from Downing Street

Politics can be a fast and cruel business.

I’m currently looking at a removal van being filled up at the back of Downing Street.

I’m not sure if it’s Rishi Sunak or Jeremy Hunt’s stuff being moved out.

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Alastair Campbell, who was Tony Blair's press secretary after Labour's 1997 landslide, says Sir Keir Starmer and his team will find it "takes a little while to adjust" from campaign mode to being in government.

The former No 10 aide tells BBC Radio 4's Today programme it will be strange for the new PM and his ministers to get used to power but must adapt quickly.

Asked about Starmer's first steps in power, he urges him to capitalise on Labour's win.

He says: "You have to go from the campaign, where you've been making promises for change, and then you've got to deliver them.

"In these early days, a new government has an awful lot of good will, a lot of momentum, a lot of energy, a lot of excitement within the government machine - and you've got to exploit that."

What themes could come up in Starmer's first news conference?published at 08:52 British Summer Time 6 July 2024

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Nick Eardley
Political correspondent, reporting from Downing Street

After the smiles and celebrations yesterday - Keir Starmer’s government has big challenges to face up to.

The tricky issues the UK faced last week are still the tricky issues the UK faces this week.

Within hours of being appointed, the new health secretary Wes Streeting declared the NHS broken. That’s a significant conclusion - and gives him the big task of fixing it. He’ll try to make an early impression in talks to end the junior doctors strike next week. Can he find a solution where the last government failed?

Rachel Reeves, the new chancellor, has promised economic growth. But that has proved easier said than done in recent years. She’s also set herself some strict fiscal rules which will limit her ability to raise extra cash.

Where will money be prioritised? And by extension, who will lose out?

The new Foreign Secretary David Lammy takes up his job at a time of international tension; the war in Ukraine and the conflict in Gaza high on his agenda.

Those are just a few examples. Each new cabinet minister will have their own issues to solve.

But it’s a reminder than the honeymoon period for a new government never lasts long.

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One of the big shocks of election night was the defeat of Labour's Jonathan Ashworth - formerly the shadow paymaster general - who lost his Leicester South seat, which had a majority of more than 22,000.

He was beaten by independent candidate Shockat Adam, who declared "this is for Gaza" as he won the seat by 979 votes.

Speaking to Radio 4's Today programme, Adam says his election was not "solely based on the Gaza issue," adding there are other local issues which matter to him.

"I am going to be committed to my constituents and be a voice that they need in the corridors of power," he says.

"The people of Leicester were aware there was going to be a Labour government. Democratically they elected me as an independent representative and I will still work extremely hard with all parties and the government."

Greens co-leader Adrian Ramsay says his party will push Labour on its policies to address environmental issues and restoring public services.

"I think Labour has said good things about a number of these issues. It's whether the policies they're proposing are going to take us far enough to address them," he tells BBC Breakfast.

Ramsay says the Greens, which secured four seats nationwide in its best-ever election result, have seen support rise "in all parts of the country".

"There's a wide range of people voting Green who want a better future, who want a more constructive form of politics," he adds.

Let's have a quick look at what we are expecting to happen in the next few hours.

Sir Keir Starmer is preparing for his first cabinet meeting which will be held later this morning.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves and deputy prime minister Angela Rayner have already arrived at No 10.

The prime minister is expected to make some more junior ministerial appointments and he will also hold a news conference this afternoon.

We also still have one more result to bring you from Thursday's election – the Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire seat is still to declare and we are expecting that outcome later today.

Despite the damp weather, it is certainly much quieter on Downing Street this morning than this time yesterday – enough silence for Larry the cat to find a spot for a nap (see if you can spot him below).

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• Born: 1943
• Job before the Commons: Broadcaster
• Constituency: Herne Bay and Sandwich
• Political party: Conservative
• Key quote: "There will be good people coming in and I reckon my job as a veteran is to try to answer questions and help them do the job for the people we represent," he told Kent Online following his re-election
• Top campaign pledges: Protect farmland from development, improve sewer systems

Sir Roger was also the only person to ever be elected to the now-defunct North Thanet constituency in 1983.

The constituency was replaced by the new Herne Bay and Sandwich constituency at this election, which Sir Roger won with a much reduced majority on Thursday.

He is older than the new Father of the House - a title given to the longest continuously serving MP - Sir Edward Leigh, who was first sworn in to the House of Commons before him.