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US President Donald Trump has described the UK's general election result as "surprising".

Mr Trump, who was answering a question from a reporter during an Oval Office photo opportunity, did not expand on his comment.

Shocked world leaders and media raise Brexit questions after Theresa May's poll battering.

Radio 4 PM

Shadow attorney general Shami Chakrabarti described Prime Minister Theresa May as "arrogant" and her snap general election "disastrous".

Speaking to Radio 4's PM, Baroness Chakrabarti also voiced concern about Theresa May's plan to form a government that relies on the support from the DUP.

"How can you be the broker between the political parties if you are completely dependent on one of those parties for your own political survival?" she said.

BBC Radio 5 live

Theresa May’s former director of communications, Katie Perrior, has told Radio 5 live that the Conservatives' election campaign was “pretty shambolic”.

She said the party had tried to run a presidential-style campaign with a politician who is shy and doesn’t like doing media - and didn’t use the party's other big hitters until it was too late.

Ms Perriror, who resigned when the election was called, went on to describe how she “used to have to beg” Mrs May to do media when she worked for her, as she never wanted to do it.

Was there a 72% turnout for 18 to 24-year-olds voting in the election?

The figure has been widely quoted but doubt has been cast over its origin.

Although there was an increase in turnout for young people in constituencies with the largest numbers of young people, it was not significantly greater than the increase in turnout in general.

Seats with the highest proportions of 18 to 24-year-olds did have above average swings to Labour, but there were also plenty of seats with big swings to Labour and low proportions of young people.

Radio 4 PM

Theresa May has apologised to Conservative MPs who lost their seats in the general election - but insisted that she is now committed to forming a government in the national interest.

Neil Carmichael is one of those MPs. He had represented the people of Stroud from 2010 until the election.

He explained to BBC Radio 4's PM programme, that the three things which he felt had lost him his seat were the prime minister's campaign style, the rethink on the social care policy mid campaign, and the "hard Brexit approach".

The Guardian's cartoonist, Martin Rowson, has given his take on last night's election result, satirising the fact that, during the election campaign, Theresa May told ITV the naughtiest thing she had ever done was running though a farmer's wheat field when she was younger.

This is the scene in Kensington, where counting resumed earlier after a 12-hour pause.

It is the only constituency still not to have declared. A result is not expected until about 20:30 BST.

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Theresa May is determined to continue as prime minister, in a government relying on the help of the DUP.

How will that work?

BBC diplomatic correspondent James Landale says:

Read more from James Landale here.

LBC

Conservative backbench MP Heidi Allen has told the LBC radio station that Theresa May could be gone from office within six months.

She said: "I don’t believe that Theresa May will stay as our prime minister indefinitely. In my view, it may well just be a period of transition."

Asked how long she would give the PM, the Tory MP for South Cambridgeshire added: "Certainly I don’t see any more than six months."

Mansfield and Canterbury have switched political sides for the first time in almost 100 years.

Election 2017

BBC political correspondent Chris Mason, Newsnight's Nick Watt, political correspondent Iain Watson and correspondent Kevin Connolly discuss the jaw-dropping result of the general election.

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The first minister says plans for a second poll on independence were "undoubtedly" a factor in the result.

LBC

Lord Sugar implored people, external not to vote for Jeremy Corbyn in the run-up to the election, and now describes Labour's increased vote as "very, very suprising".

He told LBC:, external "Jeremy Corbyn did a very good job wooing the young and educated people. I would add that those people who voted for him are quite bright and educated, but also not very experienced in life.

"I'm not sure if they really knew what they were voting for, to be honest with you."

How long does it take to get over the shock of losing your job as an MP? A year, two days?

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So what do the DUP election king-makers think about Brexit and trade?

Northern Ireland's largest party was one of the most enthusiastic cheerleaders for Brexit and wants Britain to leave the EU's customs union.

But its manifesto focused heavily on maintaining the benefits of membership.

It wants what it calls a "frictionless border" with the Republic of Ireland, "ease of trade" with the rest of the EU and a comprehensive free-trade and customs agreement with the bloc once Britain leaves in 2019.

"It's wrong to say we're not in favour of a soft Brexit," DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds said, adding he does not want a "hard border".

All well and good - but this might be a bit of a tall order.

As the Northern Ireland Assembly Research and Information Service says, external:

"Firms trading with the EU from outside of the customs union are subject to customs checks. This could be particularly problematic for Northern Ireland, as the region shares a land border with the EU and around 37% of our exports cross that border to enter the RoI."