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. Metro: Exit poll predicts hung Parliament

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  2. Lib Dems definitively rule out coalition

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    Definitely no coalition, say the Liberal Democrats.

    The party's press office has tweeted: "We are getting a lot of calls so just to be clear: No Coalition. No deals."

  3. Conservatives: 'It doesn't add up'

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  4. Houghton & Sunderland South: Labour hold

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  5. Counting in the dark

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    BBC Radio Leicester political reporter

    The lights have gone out in Aylestone Leisure Centre where they are counting the Leicester votes - they carry on in the dark...

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    What stalwarts.

  6. Curtice: Labour swing smaller than expected in Newcastle Central

    Election 2017

    Prof John Custice says: "According to the exit poll there should be a 5 point decrease in the Conservative vote here, while Labour’s vote is expected to be up by 19 points. In practice, the Conservative vote is up by 6 points and the Labour vote by 10.

    "The result is thus a smaller swing to Labour than expected by the exit poll."