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Mirror columnist Brian Reade says he felt the "urge to hug strangers", external after Labour's election gains:

The Labour-supporting paper's columnist said they were the reason the Conservatives were "suffocating in a dark fog of fear and loathing":

BBC Newsbeat

Labour's resurgence in the popular vote is being put down - anecdotally, at least - to an increase in the number of young adults who voted, with claims the turnout among 18 to 24-year-olds was as high as 72%.

But did rappers and grime MCs play a part in mobilising the nation's youth?

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Rapper Clement Marfo, who encouraged his fans to vote, tells BBC Newsbeat he and fellow musicians played a significant role. "The likes of myself, JME (pictured above) and Big Narstie who have used our platform and voice to speak up and influence and somewhat educate the youth," he says.

The #Grime4Corbyn campaign became well known for its high-profile backers such as JME and Stormzy.

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Owen Paterson has sought to ease fears that the involvement of the DUP in supporting Theresa May's new government would lead to pressure to compromise on certain areas of social policy, including LGBT issues. Mr Paterson told the Today programme:

Told of concerns voiced by the Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson about a potential reversal of gay rights, Mr Paterson said:

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BBC Breakfast's John Maguire has been behind the counter of BBC Breakfast's Butty Van at the Kenilworth Agricultural Show, Warwickshire.

He hears from the Nigel and Ian Baxter, who've become known as the "Brexit Brothers". Businessman Ian, a Remainer, says the lack of a strong government is a "disaster for our country".

"Theresa May's strategy of pursuing a hard-Brexit being anti-immigration, being pro-grammar schools and introducing a 'dementia tax' in the middle of a campaign has landed her in this situation. She's vacated the centre ground and that's why she hasn't won," he says.

For once, Leave campaigner Nigel, a farmer, agrees with "almost everything" his brother says.

"She went out to get a strong mandate for Brexit and then we've ended up with an election which discussed pretty much everything else," he says. "Mr Corbyn hijacked it... went on to deal with austerity... and has just been promising free stuff which people like but is completely uneconomical and unaffordable."

Ian reckons the result might be positive when it comes to avoiding a hard Brexit talks but Nigel isn't in accord:

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Shadow housing minister Ruth Cadbury says Jeremy Corbyn has "helped to restore the Labour brand" following the election result.

"Give him credit for what he's achieved", she told Sky News, after Labour won 262 seats - up 30 from the last election.

She said she was "one of those concerned" about Mr Corbyn's leadership but said "we've now come to respect the way he's led the campaign".

The former Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Paterson has warned party colleagues that another Conservative leadership contest would lead to "chaos" and a delay in dealing with Brexit.

He said Theresa May was right to try to govern the country with the help of the Democratic Unionist Party:

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Another Conservative MP to lose her seat on Thursday was Nicola Blackwood, the former health minister.

She said that this was now a time for unity in the country as it approached Brexit negotiations - following two terrorist attacks and after people had retreated to "partisan corners" in the election.

"What voters have told us very clearly is that they don't want partisanship.They want leadership from their politicians and Theresa May showed very clearly as prime minister that she is perfectly able to deliver this. We need leadership that can stretch across all of these divides."

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Former housing minister Gavin Barwell, who lost his seat in the election, told the Today programme that he thought Theresa May was still the best person to take Britain into forthcoming Brexit negotiations:

"As housing minister I had the privilege of working closely with her and I think she has all of the qualities that we need and I think what the Conservative Party needs to do is get behind her and support her in that job."

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The general election produced the usual mix of emotions, with surprises, shocks and - if not the sublime - certainly the ridiculous, thanks to an array of novelty candidates.

Get the full picture, with our round up of winners and losers.

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The incontestable truth of this general election is that the Conservative Party does not have enough MPs to win votes by itself in the new House of Commons.

The prime minister could try to get her legislation through vote by vote, issue by issue.

But that would be a recipe for instability and unpredictability.

So she has announced that she will try to do a deal with the Democratic Unionist Party, Northern Ireland's largest unionist party.

Minority governments like this are not uncommon, so how could it feasibly work?

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On a night of surprising results, few were as unexpected as the shock wins for Labour and the Conservatives in Canterbury and Mansfield respectively.

The cathedral city of Canterbury had been Conservative since 1918, but returned a Labour MP for the first time in 99 years. Meanwhile, 200 miles away in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, a Tory will represent a seat that had been loyally Labour since 1923.

BBC News asked voters in both areas to explain the huge shift in the political landscape.

Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has denied speculation she is planning a breakaway from the national party.

In a tweet, she rubbished claims on the Telegraph, external's Scottish front page that she would "tear her Scottish party away from English control" following the election result.

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Katie Perrior, who was Theresa May's Downing Street director of communications for 10 months, describes the Conservative election campaign as "pretty dysfunctional" to BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

"I feel bad for her. She has a sense of public duty and will take responsibility for this," says Ms Perrior. "She needed to broaden her circle of advisers and have a few grey hairs in there who had been around a bit and could say 'don't do that'."

Asked if Mrs May's advisers Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill - who have been criticised in the wake of the results - bullied people, including cabinet ministers, she says: "I think so."

"What the prime minister needs when you're going through a difficult time like negotiating Brexit is diplomats, not streetfighters," she adds.

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Labour's former shadow chancellor Chris Leslie is taking a less enthusiastic view of the party's resurgence than many. He tells BBC Radio 4's Today programme that securing 262 seats and 40% of the vote doesn't deserve to be celebrated.

"Five years of Conservative government? I just can't, I'm afraid, be a cheerleader for that particular outcome because this was an open goal. I've never known a more beatable prime minister than Theresa May."

Mr Leslie has often been a vocal critic of leader Jeremy Corbyn.