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

  1. 'Impossible' to predict May's future - ministerpublished at 18:19 British Summer Time 9 June 2017

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    Brexit Minister David Jones has said it is "impossible to say" whether Theresa May will still be prime minister by the end of the year.

    Mr Jones, who saw his majority in Clwyd West cut from 6,730 to 3,437, told Radio Wales that Mrs May is "the strongest leader we have at the moment".

    Asked if he thought she would still be PM at the end of the year, he added: "That's impossible for me to say.

    "What I would say is that the prime minister has my full support and I will be backing her all the way."

  2. Kensington count set to resumepublished at 18:05 British Summer Time 9 June 2017

    Counting in Kensington - the only seat yet to be declared - is due to resume shortly.

    The first count last night is understood to have given Labour victory by about 50 votes.

    There was then a recount, but it was abandoned at 06:00 BST when discrepancies were found and because staff were too exhausted to continue.

    Counting will now resume, after a 12-hour pause in the process. Labour is hoping to snatch the central London seat for the first time in its history.

  3. Watch: What happens in a hung Parliament?published at 18:05 British Summer Time 9 June 2017

    Election 2017

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  4. Coming up on Friday's Question Timepublished at 18:05 British Summer Time 9 June 2017

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  5. Andrew Neil: Some will see same cabinet ministers as a sign of weaknesspublished at 17:54 British Summer Time 9 June 2017

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  6. A comeback for Chuka Umunna?published at 17:54 British Summer Time 9 June 2017

    Sky News is reporting that the former shadow business secretary, Labour MP Chuka Umunna says he would be prepared to serve in Mr Corbyn's shadow cabinet.

    He told the BBC's Vicki Young earlier: "I wouldn’t rule anything out. But it would be rather presumptuous to presume [sic] to think I’d be asked."

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  7. May looked wooden, says Strawpublished at 17:53 British Summer Time 9 June 2017

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    Jack Straw, the former Labour home secretary, has told the BBC Theresa May looked "wooden" during the election. He said it was also a major mistake for her not to take part in the final televised election debate.

    On Jeremy Corbyn, he said the Labour leader had been able to reach out to voters in a way that was "unexpected to me", particularly young people.

    "I think young people generally got a big shock in last year's EU referendum," he said, adding that young voters "getting the point and coming out to vote" was what shifted the election towards Labour.

  8. End of tabloids as arbiters as UK politics?published at 17:43 British Summer Time 9 June 2017

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  9. Election 2017 result raises questionspublished at 17:42 British Summer Time 9 June 2017

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    As the politicians and pundits mull over the implications of the election result voters want to know if there is a clear path through the apparent political disarray.

    Here, we tackle some of the questions being raised by BBC audiences.

    What you want to know about the election result

    BBC News users want to know if there is a clear path through the apparent political disarray.

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  10. 'Corbyn wanted our opinion' - studentspublished at 17:41 British Summer Time 9 June 2017

    The town of Canterbury in Kent has become a Labour constituency for the first time in its history.

    The BBC speaks to students at the University of Kent in the city about what motivated them to support the Labour party.

  11. How much has all this cost the taxpayer?published at 17:41 British Summer Time 9 June 2017

    Theresa May may have paid a heavy price for calling a snap election.

    But the taxpayer has also born the cost. BBC understands this election has cost the state than £143m. That's an increase of 16% from the £123m it budgeted for the 2015 general election.

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  12. Hammond and Johnson happy to be stayingpublished at 17:36 British Summer Time 9 June 2017

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  13. Powell: DUP deal 'a big mistake'published at 17:35 British Summer Time 9 June 2017

    Jonathan Powell, a former chief government negotiator on Northern Ireland, has told the BBC that a Conservative coalition with the DUP will make it virtually impossible to resolve the political crisis in Northern Ireland and risked "undoing 20 years of good work" there.

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    The [Conservative government] have made themselves dependent on the DUP. Every morning when they wake up, the only way the government can go on is if the DUP agrees to support it.

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    Since 1991, for good reasons, the British government has always been neutral in Northern Ireland. We haven't taken sides between unionists and nationalists and republicans. Theresa May has made herself a hostage to the DUP. That means she can't be an independent mediator between the two sides.

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    We've got to set this executive up, the British government has been trying to go backwards and forwards between the two sides. Now we are on one side. The DUP can pull the chain at any moment.

    Mr Powell said he believed the prospects of establishing power "are almost zero" without a neutral party as go-between.

    The political deadlock in Northern Ireland came about after the collapse of a DUP-Sinn Fein coalition.

    A snap election in March brought an end to Stormont's unionist majority and the DUP's lead over Sinn Féin was cut from 10 seats to one.

    Earlier Michelle O'Neill, Sinn Fein's leader in Northern Ireland, said the party was eager to get back to power-sharing.

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  14. Hammond, Rudd, Johnson, Davis and Fallon to stay onpublished at 17:23 British Summer Time 9 June 2017
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    The following Cabinet posts have been confirmed by No 10:

    • Chancellor of the Exchequer - Philip Hammond
    • Home Secretary - Amber Rudd
    • Foreign Secretary - Boris Johnson
    • Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union - David Davis
    • Defence Secretary - Sir Michael Fallon
  15. Kuenssberg: Top five in May's team to stay in placepublished at 17:21 British Summer Time 9 June 2017

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  16. Gimme five... ohpublished at 17:20 British Summer Time 9 June 2017

    Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn went to give a jubilant high-five to his shadow foreign secretary - but got more than he bargained for.

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  17. Gove or Duncan Smith to return?published at 17:16 British Summer Time 9 June 2017

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    Names including Michael Gove and Iain Duncan Smith - both former cabinet ministers - are among those "doing the rounds" amid speculation about who could benefit from a possible cabinet reshuffle, BBC political correspondent Eleanor Garnier says.

    But she says it seems likely to be "some time" before we know who is in and who is out.

  18. What does it all mean for Scotland?published at 17:11 British Summer Time 9 June 2017

    The BBC's Philip Sim looks at how another dramatic election night will impact on the big issues.

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  19. Kuenssberg: Boris Johnson and Philip Hammond to keep jobspublished at 17:10 British Summer Time 9 June 2017

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