Vice Magazine captures the joy of Labour supporters in Westminster as they learn the party has taken the south-west London seat of Battersea.

The DUP is meeting now to reflect on a situation that one party source described as "messy".

The source confirms soundings have been made but nothing formal has been agreed.

Talk of agreement is described as "premature" and the party is expected to have a news conference in the early afternoon.

The Conservative party has held Cornwall North.

Scott Mann won 25,835 votes, with Liberal Democrat Daniel Rogerson in second place with 18,625.

The Cabinet Manual, written in 2010, sets out the rules for how the next government will be formed if there is a hung parliament.

Where an election does not result in an overall majority for a single party, it says "the incumbent government remains in office unless and until the prime minister tenders his or her resignation and the government’s resignation to the Sovereign".

"An incumbent government is entitled to wait until the new parliament has met to see if it can command the confidence of the House of Commons, but is expected to resign if it becomes clear that it is unlikely to be able to command that confidence and there is a clear alternative."

You can read the document for yourself, external on the Cabinet Office website.

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Theresa May is going to Buckingham Palace at 12.30pm, our political editor has now confirmed, saying the PM has no intention of resigning.

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BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg says Theresa May is expected to head to Buckingham Palace today to speak to the Queen, "with the understanding she can form a government".

This is a result of conversations that have been taking place with the DUP over the past hours, though it is "not necessarily an attempt to form a formal coalition.

"The DUP have no wish to see Theresa May out of office and no wish to work with Jeremy Corbyn," added Laura.

At the BBC World Service's World Have Your Say event, in Ilford, east London, voters are discussing the performances of the respective party leaders.

Labour's Jeremy Corbyn has inspired a new world of hope, suggests one woman, while another says she "would never vote for a Labour party with Mr Corbyn as leader".

"Theresa May's biggest mistake was trying to make this election presidential," says another young woman, suggesting the prime minister lacks charisma.

However, others argue that it's not about personality. "My biggest problem is that she shouldn't have called the election at all," says one woman.

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There are just two seats still to be declared - Cornwall North and Kensington.

But the west London seat has suspended its count, as there needs to be a third recount. So we won't get the result there until a lot later today, or even tomorrow.

Owen Smith, who stood against Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership, has praised his former rival.

Smith, who has been re-elected as Pontypridd MP, said:

The Bow Group, which describes itself as "the United Kingdom's oldest conservative think tank" and "firmly housed in the Conservative family", has called for the party to rethink Theresa May's position - but not necessarily immediately.

Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live, journalist and Corbyn supporter Owen Jones has hailed the Labour leader's gains as "the most sensational political turnaround in modern political history".

He says Labour must now unite around Mr Corbyn and his manifesto and accept that the party's fabric has fundamentally changed.

"The Labour party is now a new Labour party," he said. "It’s the end of Blairism."

Angela Merkel's main rival has welcomed the result of the British election, saying it marks the end of Theresa May's strict anti-European course.

Social Democrat Martin Schulz - who's already congratulated Jeremy Corbyn in a phone call and agreed to meet in person soon - says that even if Great Britain leaves the EU we will need cooperation not confrontation - and that the UK will always remain part of Europe.

The Confederation of German Employers' Federation has issued a statement saying it hopes Brexit negotiations will now be conducted with "more realism and pragmatism", the BBC's Jenny Hill reports.

In it, the organisation's president, Ingo Kramer, says: "Neither nationalism nor anti-EU rhetoric nor left wing social romanticism reach majorities.

"This message has now reached the British isles."

The BBC World Service's World Have Your Say is gauging the reaction of voters in Ilford, east London, where Labour held onto two seats.

Some Labour voters criticise Theresa May's comments on security in the wake of the London and Manchester terror attacks, given that she had spent six years as home secretary.

A Conservative supporter calls such comments from Labour "a bit galling", pointing out that Mrs May faced a battle to get anti-terror bills through Parliament because of opposition from Jeremy Corbyn, among others.