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BBC News looks at the winners and losers of a dramatic night.

Tim Farron says Brexit talks should be put on hold and there will be no deal with the Conservatives.

The World at One
BBC Radio 4

A deal with the DUP would be a "mistaken policy" and would mean British government is not 'neutral' in NI, says Tony Blair's former chief of staff.

Jonathan Powell, who also served as chief negotiator on Northern Ireland, told Martha Kearney that the peace process in Northern Ireland was based the fact the British government has "made it clear that it's neutral", but that "once you have DUP support you're no longer neutral".

The DUP's key slogan in the party manifesto was: “A vote for the DUP team is a vote to send ‘Team Northern Ireland’ to Westminster. It is a team that has real influence.”

But what else was in the document?

Some of the items on the party's wishlist included:

• Save working tax credits for 100,000 people in Northern Ireland
• Create “City Region Growth Deals” for Northern Ireland
• Lobby to encourage international events to be staged in Northern Ireland
• Lobby to continue to incorporate Nothern Ireland prominently in UK branding
• Develop new energy generation capacity
• Host “Armed Forces Day” at some point in the next Parliament and regularly thereafter
• End NI exclusion from public expressions of Britishness

• The party's stance on Brexit includes demands for ease of trade with Republic of Ireland; maintaining the Common Travel Area; no internal borders between any of the four nations of the UK; frictionless border with Republic of Ireland assisting those working/travelling in the other; free-trade deals with the rest of the world and free-trade and customs agreement with the EU.

You can read more in the manifesto itself here., external

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We've just had a short statement from the DUP leader, who was speaking in Belfast.

Arlene Foster said yesterday's general election had been "truly historic", with the DUP recording its "best ever election result".

She said:

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BBC Radio 4

Loughborough MP and former Conservative cabinet minister Nicky Morgan, giving her reaction to the election result, says making the campaign "all about one person may have been the issue here".

She told the World at One's Martha Kearney that every prime minister has a tight-knit circle of advisers, but the party will be raising the issue and looking for more of an input into policy development.

Reading from abroad? Let us answer your basic questions about the UK election result.

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The leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Ruth Davidson, says it's been an "historic result" for the party in Scotland - but the Tories as a whole had fallen short of expectations.

She said it was vital to listen to the message that the people of the UK had sent.

"My horizons don't end at the border," she said.

"We need to ensure that the UK government continues to function, the Queen's Speech is brought forward."

And she said:

Ms Davidson also said the result in Scotland for the SNP was as a result of a "miscalculation" on behalf of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in calling for a second referendum on independence.

She said "Scotland has had its fill" and that Scots wanted a break from calls for independence.

She said: "Nobody will condemn the first minister if she now decides to reset her course. This is her opportunity to do so and I urge her to take it."

Andrew Neil
Presenter, The Daily Politics

Conservative Lord Lamont hits back at Labour's claims the party campaigned on "hope", in contrast to the government.

"It's all very well to say I'm in favour of hope and not in favour of fear but austerity is not something that you choose to have, it's been unavoidable," says the former chancellor.

"Austerity is not in order to be nasty to people. Austerity is because we have been in a deep hole and we have got to get out of it."

DUP leader Arlene Foster says she has spoken to Theresa May this morning. She told a press conference:

Professor John Curtice
Polling expert

There was a Brexit effect - but not the one Theresa May wanted.

Areas where most people voted Remain swung very differently from those where most voted Leave.

On the one hand, the Conservatives often secured a swing to themselves in constituencies where the Leave vote was highest.

These were nearly all places where UKIP performed best in 2015 - and so were the areas where there were most UKIP votes for the Conservatives to snatch away.

Leave seats with clear swings to the Conservatives included Boston and Skegness where there was a 6% swing to the Conservatives and Bolsover where there was as much as an 8% swing.

But seats which voted Remain last year - and where there were relatively few UKIP voters in 2015 - saw Labour pull off some of its best performances.

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Unite union boss Len McCluskey, who at one stage during the campaign said it would be a success if Labour won 200 seats, tells Andrew Neil that the party's gains - to win 261 seats - were "an absolute vindication of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership". The Labour leader should take credit for a "magnificent campaign", he said.

"The policies are extremely popular... speak to all kinds of concerns and most of all are an absolute rejection of austerity," says Mr McCluksey, whose union is Labour's biggest backer.

He denies that Labour "lost" saying they won back millions of votes.

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How do you think your party performed in the general election? Listeners aired their views on the election result on BBC Radio 5 live's Your Call.

Ian in Bradford said he was "a very disappointed Conservative voter... [Labour's policies] weren’t very realistic but it wasn’t challenged."

Andrew, a Labour voter in Colchester said: “With Jeremy, for someone who is reluctant to press the red button he’s done a mighty spectacular job of nuking the Tory party.”

Gary, a UKIP voter in Weybridge says: “You can’t decry the accomplishment and political force of character that Farage brought to the game. His absence is what left a lot of UKIP voters without a home.”

After years of public sector cuts, yesterday’s general election result revealed that a sizeable portion of voters are tired of the “spend less” mantra.