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
Image source, Getty ImagesThe pound has regained ground after Theresa May indicated she could form a government with the Democratic Unionist Party.
It is trading 1.5% lower against the dollar at $1.27570, having fallen more than 2% earlier.
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Hugh has three children and four grandchildren. He voted for Britain to leave the EU, because he thought it would be the best thing for future generations. He says he’s now worried that Brexit won’t happen anytime soon.
Hugh voted SNP in this election, but says he thinks the reason the party lost seats in Scotland is that Nicola Sturgeon "forgot about the 40% in Scotland who voted Brexit- it’s no surprise she's been abandoned by so many people".
Conservative MP Dominic Grieve has suggested the general election result was affected by those who did not vote in the Brexit referendum.
Quote MessageOne of the consequences of this vote is that we once again see how Brexit has destabilised the British political system, and the trouble is once you have revolutionary acts like Brexit, then they always create the swing of the pendulum in another direction.
Mr Grieve, who was attorney general in the coalition government, added: "In this case it centred mainly on young people, who I suspect may not have been in favour of Brexit but didn't actually vote in the referendum, expressing their unhappiness."
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Image source, PAGodfrey Bloom, former UKIP member of the European Parliament, told BBC Radio York the party's future depended on the UK leaving the EU.
He said: "I think UKIP is finished - unless of course they rise phoenix-like from the ashes - if this administration fails to deliver Brexit."
We've just got one result left to come, and that's from Kensington in west London. It postponed the third recount, having already had two.
The council website, external has now said the count will start at 18:00 BST.
The returning officer for the constituency said earlier this morning:
Quote MessageThe provisional result of the election was known at approximately 2am. That result was very close and a recount was therefore requested. The result on that recount also remained very close.
Quote MessageA request for a third count was therefore made. At this stage staff had been up all night and were becoming visibly tired. In order to have confidence in its accuracy, the recount has been suspended to allow staff to rest and recuperate.
Brenda from Bristol became an unlikely viral star with her reaction to announcement of the snap election in April.
The BBC's Jon Kay has caught up with her this morning.
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By BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg
Image source, Getty ImagesTheresa May and husband Philip arrive at Conservative HQ
She stays, for today. After a few hours of wild uncertainty, Theresa May will head to Buckingham Palace to seek permission from the Queen to form a government. She has the understanding and assurance from the DUP to be able to form a government, it seems.
The PM has experienced a political disaster of her own making. But uniquely perhaps for a prime minister in this situation she is, despite her ruthless party's DNA, planning to stay.
The reason? Brexiteers don't want to rock the boat. No-one wants another election. And there is paranoia, whatever the EU says publicly, that Brussels would use the opportunity to cause the maximum amount of trouble. The way it's hoped at top levels of the party to avoid that is to leave 'the boss' as they call her, in place. But only for now.
Theresa May has fallen off a "glass cliff", according to Professor Michelle Ryan, who specialises in social and organisational psychology at the University of Exeter.
The term suggests a tendency for women to be preferred over men for leadership positions at times when the risk of failure is high.
Quote MessageIt is no coincidence that Mrs May became prime minister amidst the uncertainty of Brexit, and she is now paying the price.
Prof Michelle Ryan, University of Exeter
The UK election is a very popular topic on social media site Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter. More than 56 million people have been reading posts on the topic, and 14,000 engaged in discussions.
Meanwhile, China’s official Xinhua news agency said it hoped the Conservatives could continue in government and "avoid twists and turns" in the co-operation between the two countries.
Mr Ashdown continued that the UK had ended up being put through a referendum and election "we neither wanted nor needed", both of which were "in the interest of the Conservatives rather than the nation".
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BBC Radio Norfolk
Aides for the Conservative candidate James Wild were involved in a scuffle as emotions ran high on election night.
General election 2017: Tory aides involved in scuffle
Mr Wild had hoped to beat Liberal Democrat incumbent Norman Lamb to one of the most keenly contested seats of the election, but he lost by about 3,500 votes.
A BBC reporter tried to speak to Mr Wild as he left the count but was ignored. Aides pushed a cameraman out of the way as they exited the venue.
Mr Wild has been contacted for a comment.
Paddy Ashdown says Theresa May has "lost touch with reality".
The former Lib Dem leader said:
Quote MessageShe has no democratic legitimacy for the proposition she's made. To put the dear old Queen through this process again... it's a bit like London buses.
Quote MessageIf you wait long enough, another Conservative prime minister will come along pretty soon. And it will. She cannot last. Her position is untenable.
Quote MessageShe can have no credibility at home and no bargaining power with the European Union.
He added that the country was broken, fractured and adrift.
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UKIP is now set to hold its third leadership election in a year after Paul Nuttall stood down.
His time at the helm did not always go smoothly, with questions raised about where he was living - and past claims on his website that he had lost a close friend in the Hillsborough disaster.
You can read a profile of the ex-UKIP leader here.
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The FTSE all share index is up following this morning's result, but retailers, banks and housebuilders have fallen.
Among the worst performers are Next, down 2%, Dixons Carphone, down 1.7%, RBS, 2.9% lower, and Barratt Developments, down 2.8%.
Investment firm Hargreaves Lansdown says it's a "reflection of the fact that lower sterling and political uncertainty mean the pounds in Britons’ pockets seem set to be lighter going forwards".
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