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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'Lib Dem spin begins'published at 05:46 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
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Morecambe & Lunesdale: Conservative holdpublished at 05:46 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
Chatham & Aylesford: Conservative Holdpublished at 05:45 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
Why the Tories lost their majoritypublished at 05:45 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
Professor John Curtice
Polling expert
The movement of Remainers and young voters towards Labour explains why the Conservatives have lost their overall majority.
The effect of this movement has been to counteract the clear evidence that the Conservative Party benefited most from the sharp decline in UKIP support from 13% to 2%.
Where UKIP was strongest in 2015 - and where consequently their vote fell most this time around - there was a small net swing to the Conservatives, whereas where UKIP were previously weakest there was a 7% swing to Labour.
Could Theresa May be the shortest-lived PM in 94 years?published at 05:44 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
Election 2017
If Theresa May steps down, the BBC's David Dimbleby says, she will be the shortest-lived prime minister since Conservative Andrew Bonar Law, who lasted 209 days between 1922 and 1923.
Mansfield: Conservative gain from Labourpublished at 05:43 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
Bolsover: Labour holdpublished at 05:43 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
Daventry: Conservative holdpublished at 05:40 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
Hertfordshire South West: Conservative holdpublished at 05:40 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
Herefordshire North: Conservative holdpublished at 05:39 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
Edinburgh South: Labour Holdpublished at 05:39 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
It's official: BBC forecasts hung parliamentpublished at 05:37 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
Watch: 'You've not seen the last o' my bonnets'published at 05:36 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
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Surrey South West: Conservative holdpublished at 05:35 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
Ross, Skye & Lochaber: SNP holdpublished at 05:35 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
Reading East: Labour gain from Conservativepublished at 05:35 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
Senior Tory figures - 'schtum'published at 05:31 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
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David Dimbleby says the BBC has tried to contact Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, Chancellor Philip Hammond and Brexit Secretary David Davis for interview following the election - but without success.
"Senior figures in the Tory party - schtum," he says.
Ayrshire Central: SNP holdpublished at 05:30 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
Penrith & The Border: Conservative holdpublished at 05:29 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
Can Theresa May stay as PM?published at 05:28 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
BBC political editor writes:
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The conversations have started not just about whether the Tories will be able to form a government, but whether or not Theresa May can stay in her job.
There is no one prevailing mood inside the Tory party. As I write, Mrs May is holed up with her advisers inside Tory HQ. But a former minister Anna Soubry has called for her to "consider her position" - political code for calling for her to resign.
Another senior MP tells me 'I can't see how she can stay'. A minister texts to say the Tory party is 'absolute monarchy, ruled by regicide and that's the territory we are in'. One Tory source says it is '50:50' that she will quit in the morning.
But others are urging caution, calling for reflection, a period of calm.
It's clear the Tory party won't allow her to stay on to fight another general election campaign in some years hence. But cooler heads may press on her to stay, not to walk away. This is the election none of the main parties predicted.
Just as David Cameron finished off his own career by gambling with the EU referendum he didn't have to have, Theresa May has followed him by calling a national vote when it was not required, because of our relationship with the European Union, and ended her career in the same way.