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

Live Reporting

  1. Maldon: Conservative hold

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  2. Telegraph late edition: May's poll nightmare

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  3. Daily Mail late edition: Gamble that backfired

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  4. May 'won't survive' if no overall majority - Salmond

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    Alex Salmond

    If the Conservatives do not win a majority, Theresa May will not be prime minister by the end of the next 48 hours, former SNP leader Alex Salmond says.

    "She couldn't possibly survive having called an election unnecessarily to win a big majority, fail to do so and then continue as prime minister," he says.

    "Boris Johnson is already on manoevres - doesn't surprise me - give the glaring deficiencies of Theresa May that have been exposed in the general election campaign."

    He adds: "It's very, very clear who has lost the election and she should face the consequences."

    He says the SNP will use a position of "substantial influence".

  5. The vanishing deposits...

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  6. Cleethorpes: Conservative hold

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  7. Norwich North: Conservative hold

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  8. Rudd seat undergoing recount

    Full recount under way in Hastings - the seat previously held by Home Secretary Amber Rudd.

  9. Tories gain from UKIP

    Professor John Curtice
    Polling expert

    The Conservative Party win in Boston and Skegness - where Paul Nuttall tried and failed to get elected - illustrates the way in which the Tories have done better in places where there was a large UKIP vote.

    He says there was a 6% swing to the Conservatives in the wake of a 26% drop in the UKIP vote.

  10. FT front page: May's gamble backfires

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  11. 'No rush on who to blame for losses'

    Former Cardiff North Conservative MP Craig Williams says there is no rush on who to blame for losing his seat to Labour.

    Labour has also taken back Gower and Vale of Clwyd from the Tories in a strong general election night for the party in Wales.

    No rush on who to blame for loss says Craig Williams

  12. Tories lose Canterbury after 99 years

    Canterbury result

    Sir Julian Brazier loses his Canterbury seat to Labour after 30 years in the job. Read more.

  13. Ed Davey retakes Kingston and Surbiton
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    Lib Dem former energy secretary Ed Davey snatches back the suburban London seat from the Conservatives

  14. Bristol North West: Labour gain from Conservative

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  15. Kenilworth & Southam: Conservative hold

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  16. Durham North West: Labour hold

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  17. Former SNP leader says PM won't stay long

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  18. Sterling steady as results unfold

    Chris Johnston
    Business reporter, BBC News

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    Sterling has not moved a great deal in the past couple of hours, and is trading down 1.5% at $1.2760.

    Gareth Berry, at Macquarie Bank in Singapore, says: "It's very hard to see Jeremy Corbyn as PM based on the arithmetic so far. Tories are very likely to form the backbone of the next government. If Ulster unionists hold the balance of power, there will be no Brexit dilution at all.

    "Even in the unlikely case Corbyn becomes PM, questions about fiscal restraint under Labour (and economic policy more generally) may end up hurting sterling anyway regardless of Labour's generally pro-EU stance."

  19. Could Boris Johnson be Conservative leader?

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    The BBC's Nick Robinson ponders whether the Conservatives will take the view that Theresa May "has gambled and lost big time and punish her for it".

    He says if the Tories were looking for a charismatic figure they would turn to Boris Johnson, but if they were looking for someone serious to deal with Brexit, that would not be him.

  20. Corbyn: 'Very proud of our results'

    Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, speaking after being re-elected in Islington North, said it was time for Theresa May to go and "make way" for a government that would be "truly representative of the people of this country". He said he was "very proud" of the results so far, which he said were a "vote for hope for the future" and said people were "turning their backs on austerity".