Election 2017

Labour's Julie Elliott has held onto Sunderland Central, but with a swing from Labour to the Conservatives of 2.3%.

Election expert Peter Kellner says the Labour Party is very worried that outside London, the exit poll has not picked up postal voters that may have voted Conservative.

Jonathan Josephs
BBC business producer

Dennis Skinner is here sipping coffee at The Arc leisure centre, in typically rumbustious form.

The longest-serving Labour MP won't be drawn on how he has done tonight or the implications of the exit poll for Brexit, but does say that if the exit poll was right Theresa May is getting her "comeuppance" as he warned she would.

He is drawing parallels with the 1974 snap election which saw Ted Heath lose out to Harold Wilson. Labour activists are confident they will retain a majority of 10,000 or more - Dennis Skinner has never had less.

No Conservative activist or candidate is here yet. Turnout is suggested to be around 60% which should favour Labour despite the huge resources that Helen Harrison and her team have been able to deploy here in area where about 71% of people voted in favour of Brexit.

Nick Eardley
BBC Scotland Westminster correspondent

Scottish Secretary David Mundell predicting all three south of Scotland seats could go Tory

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The Tories are very hopeful in Gordon - the constituency of former SNP leader Alex Salmond, BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg says.

She says they are also very hopeful in Edinburgh South - the seat of Labour's Ian Murray.

It looks like turnout is up, says Laura, with an increase in young people going to vote.

Geeta Pendse
Arts reporter, BBC East Midlands Today

Eighteen-year-old Green Party candidate, Arran Rangi, has gone home from the Ashfield count because he has an A-level history exam at 09:00.

He says he is the the first non-white candidate to stand in Ashfield.

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BBC's Mousumi Bakshi says it is looking like Labour will hold on to Cambridge.

She says a bitter battle has taken place between Labour and the Lib Dems, with the latter fighting on a Remain ticket.

Mousumi says if the Lib Dems can't take Cambridge - one of the biggest Remain voting areas - the feeling is that a Lib Dem surge won't happen.

She says the student vote is key here - there are between 12,000-13,000 in Cambridge - and the sense is they have come out for Labour.

BBC World Service

Susan Glasser, chief international affairs correspondent at Politico, tells the BBC World Service she saw comparisons between Theresa May's campaign and the former US First Lady's presidential run.

"There was certainly a scenario where she was underperforming expectations, where she ran a campaign that didn't seem to offer a fulsome, forward-looking vision. It was definitely about what she wasn't, as opposed to what she was."

But Prof John Curtice says: "Note that the exit poll does not expect a swing to Labour in this seat. So if Labour has taken it this will be a better result for than anticipated."

Katya Adler
Europe Editor

Leaders in Europe do not want someone leading the Brexit negotiations who waivers.

Any hesitation is costly for the UK too, because Brexit needs to happen within two years, including the divorce deal and trade agreeements.

In Brussels, they would like a PM that is stable, but that doesn't mean they have a particular preference for Theresa May or Jeremy Corbyn.