Election results 2017: Theresa May - DUP government 'to continue with Brexit'

Summary

Election ends in hung Parliament: Conservatives win 318 seats, Labour 262
PM confirms five top cabinet posts, including chancellor and foreign secretary
Tories to form government with DUP to 'provide certainty' and keep country 'safe'
Theresa May's government 'will carry on Brexit negotiations to existing timetable'
Jeremy Corbyn hails Labour's 'incredible result' and calls for May to resign
The Lib Dems' Tim Farron also calls on May to quit
SNP will work with others to keep 'reckless' Tories out 'if at all possible'
Paul Nuttall resigns as UKIP leader after the party won no seats

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Supportive daughterspublished at 13:52 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
Lib Dem Greg Mulholland, who lost his Leeds seat to Labour, tweets this touching note from his young daughters:
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Bernie Sanders congratulates Corbynpublished at 13:47 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
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Jeremy Corbyn fans are happypublished at 13:45 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
"Progress! 💪 Well done @jeremy_corbynmp, external and well done voters 👌🌹," writes DJ Lou Hayter on Instagram.
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Sturgeon says SNP 'will listen to voters'published at 13:40 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
The first minister promises to reflect on the 2017 election result in a statement at Bute House
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Summary of where we are nowpublished at 13:39 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
It's been less than eight hours since the UK woke up to a hung parliament, and a lot has happened already. Here's a round up of the main events
- Prime Minister Theresa May has defied calls for her to stand down after the Conservatives lost their parliamentary majority
- After meeting the Queen, Mrs May announced she's forming a new government with the support of the DUP
- She says the government will carry out Brexit negotiations to the existing timetable
- Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn celebrated his party's gains and said they were ready to "serve the people"
- Lib Dem leader Tim Farron paid tribute to Nick Clegg, who lost his Sheffield seat
- Nicola Sturgeon said despite the SNP winning in Scotland, its losses were 'bitterly disappointing'
- Paul Nuttall has resigned as UKIP leader
- The result sent shock waves around Europe, with Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt saying it was an "own goal" for Mrs May
Juncker: 'The clock is running'published at 13:37 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
According to BBC Prague correspondent Rob Cameron, Jean-Claude Juncker has played down the possibility of postponing the Brexit negotiations.
He said: "Anyway, the clock is running. We have two years and the fact that the British democracy did express itself in the way it did yesterday has no influence at all on the count."
Value for money?published at 13:35 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
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Reshuffle could start this afternoonpublished at 13:35 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
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Tory losses blamed on rail disputepublished at 13:29 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
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Several of the Conservative losses in the election have been blamed on the long-running dispute on Southern Railway.
The Tories lost seats in Croydon, Eastbourne and Brighton, while a number of others have become marginals.
The railway row has been over staffing and the role of conductors. Mick Cash, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union, says: "These results prove that the toxic Southern Rail franchise was a game changer in key seats along the routes served."
Watch: The 2017 election in five minutespublished at 13:29 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
Election 2017
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Election 2017: Highlights of TV election night coverage
Some of the highlights of the BBC's election night coverage from David Dimbleby announcing the exit polls through to the results which left the UK with a hung Parliament.
More scorn at May's speechpublished at 13:19 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
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Views from around the UK: Birminghampublished at 13:18 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
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All throughout the day, BBC Radio 5 live's reporters are hearing your stories around the UK.James in Birmingham voted Liberal Democrat. He's been a party member since 2015.He says: “It’s a bit of a bruising result but we specialise in them now. The most important thing for us is to keep going and keep providing as radical as possible a voice on liberal issues, which the other parties won't do." He's confident the party can rebuild after the last couple of elections."
Paul Nuttall deletes Twitter accountpublished at 13:11 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
After stepping down as UKIP leader, Mr Nuttall appears to have deleted his Twitter account...
'Come what May' - a paper's verdictpublished at 13:10 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
The Indy's election special this lunchtime...
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Theresa May: 'Let's get to work'published at 13:09 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
Mrs May did not refer directly to the fact her party had failed to form a majority government, or to any of its losses last night.
In her brief statement, she said her party would "put fairness and opportunity at the heart of everything we do". She also promised to:
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Over the next five years, build a country in which no one and no community is left behind. A country in which prosperity and opportunity are shared right across this UK.
Mrs May said the Conservatives and DUP would work together "in the interests of the whole United Kingdom".
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This will allow us to come together as a country and channel our energies towards a successful Brexit deal that works for everyone in this country, securing a new partnership with the EU which guarantees our long-term prosperity.
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That's what people voted for last June, that's what we will deliver. Now let's get to work.
Cartoonist's take...published at 13:07 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
Evening Standard editor and former chancellor George Osborne tweets.
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Scepticism over May's speechpublished at 13:03 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
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PM 'diminished' figurepublished at 13:03 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
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The BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg says Theresa May appeared "grim faced" as she delivered her statement outside Downing Street.
She gave no details how she would work with the DUP, suggesting it would be a loose arrangement rather anything formal.
She may have walked back into Number 10, but back she returned a diminished figure, our correspondent says. She is still prime minister - but for how long?
PM: The country needs certaintypublished at 13:02 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
The prime minister has promised to "guide the country through the crucial Brexit talks that begin in just 10 days and deliver on the will of the British people by taking the United Kingdom out of the European Union".
She added:
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What the country needs now more than ever is certainty. Having secured the largest number of votes and greatest number of seats in the general election, it is clear the Conservatives and Unionist party has the legitimacy to provide that.
'Strong relationship' between DUP and Conservatives - Maypublished at 12:56 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
Theresa May says the Conservative party and the DUP will work together, having "enjoyed a strong relationship over many years".
Brexit negotiations will continue, on the same timetable as before, says Mrs May.