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
Election 2017
Nick Clegg's loss of his seat to Labour marks "the end of what had been a very successful political career", BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg says.
The Liberal Democrats Unique Selling Point had been the promise of a second EU referendum, and Mr Clegg had been the most prominent proponent of that, she adds.
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Boris Johnson asked if he supports Theresa May
Angus Robertson is defeated in the Moray constituency by Scottish Conservative candidate Douglas Ross.
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Theresa May looks cheery at her local count
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Former Lib Dem deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has lost his Sheffield Hallam seat to Labour.
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Jeremy Corbyn has performed "infinitely better" than anyone could have expected - even Jeremy Corbyn - Labour veteran Dame Margaret Beckett says.
By contrast, she says, Theresa May had performed worse than she should.
She concedes that she may have been hasty when she said Mr Corbyn should have been part of the debate, but not necessarily the leader.
She adds that "British people don't tend to like having an election they don't have to have".
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Lib Dem Jo Swinson, a minister in the coalition who lost her seat in 2015, retakes Dunbartonshire East from the SNP.
