The stage for Boris Johnson's imminent address at the QE2 conference centre in Westminster carries the slogan "the people's government" - a sign of how the new administration will portray its purpose in the wake of the election.

BBC presenter Andrew Marr observes the slogan appears an odd choice as not all people will have voted Conservative at the election.

There are still a couple of seats left to declare but we can already say that there will be a record number of women MPs in the new parliament.

Labour will have the most, with 104, with the Conservatives on 86.

Former Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale says the picture for Scottish Labour "doesn't look very bright" as the party lost all of its MPs except Ian Murray in Edinburgh South.

She cites the party's result in 2017, where they had 27% share of the vote, saying "all that progress has gone backwards" with it achieving just 19% today.

The SNP, which gained 48 of the 59 seats in Scotland, had a "sensational night" which, she says, will result in possibly the highest ever demand for a second Scottish independence referendum.

But with Prime Minister Boris Johnson's "comfortable majority", she suggests he will have no incentive to agree to a second Indyref.

Professor Sir John Curtice
Polling expert

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Boris Johnson has won a decisive majority on the back of a big swing from Labour to the Conservatives in Leave-voting Britain. Yet north of the border the SNP dramatically almost swept the board.

According to the BBC’s latest forecast the prime minister is set to win a majority of around 70-80 seats, the biggest Tory majority since 1987. Meanwhile, at nearly 45%, the party’s share of the vote is likely to be at its highest since 1979.

Labour, in contrast, could find itself with little more than 200 seats, even fewer than the party won in its previous worst post-war result in 1983.

However, the swing in the Tories’ favour varied dramatically across the country.

In those seats where over 60% of voters backed Leave in the 2016 EU referendum, the increase in Conservative support on average was 6%. Yet in those seats where more than 55% voted Remain the party’s vote actually fell by three points.

Read more from our election expert here.

The Conservatives made a total of 28 gains against Labour in the north of England, including Great Grimsby, Workington and Sedgefield.

How Labour's 'red wall' turned blue

Laura Kuenssberg
BBC political editor

The Conservatives' majority will have an almost immediate effect on the country - unless something strange happens we will leave the European Union next month because behind him on the green benches will be new Tory MPs who will vote through his Brexit bill, making his position strong enough to subdue any opposition.

There may be years of arguments about the nature of the long-term relationship but we will no longer be part of the bloc we've been entwined in for four decades. Brexit, at least part one - to use his slogan - will be done.

He'll face different opponents - that much is clear.

But there's nothing straightforward about what faces Boris Johnson even with the kind of majority this country hasn't seen for years.

There are wide differences between town and city, Scotland and England, the political generations too.

The public has just granted Boris Johnson an immense amount of political power.

Given what's ahead it's a currency he will need to spend, and spend well.

Read Laura's full blog here.

Andrew Marr
Presenter, The Andrew Marr Show

This is a big turning point for the country.

A lot of Conservative MPs and ministers are trying to work out who is the real Boris Johnson.

There are a group of people who think Boris Johnson is going to tack to the centre, possibly implementing more public spending and a softer Brexit.

Against that there are those who say he has become tougher, that this is not a man who forgives easily.

These are the two Boris Johnsons jostling in Number 10. It will soon become clear which is going to emerge.

Chris Mason
Political Correspondent

If you’re just waking up, it’s been one heck of an election.

Firstly and most importantly, Brexit is going to happen, and it’s going to happen soon - at the end of next month.

Granted, there’ll still be plenty more negotiation to come. But the UK will be out.

Look at the places where the Conservatives have won - Leigh, Blyth Valley, Bolsover and Rother Valley among many, many others. Places that have returned Labour MPs forever - until now.

The SNP are smiling too this morning, and so the question of Scottish independence isn’t going away.

But Jo Swinson for the Lib Dems and Jeremy Corbyn for Labour are - both of their parties face massive questions about what to do next.

BBC Radio 5 Live

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Deputy leader of the Green Party Amelia Womack takes aim at the first-past-the-post system after the party held on to one seat.

Asked why good results in the European elections were not reflected in this election, she says that "people across the country" said they wanted to vote Green, but were thinking of voting Labour to keep the Tories out.

It is pointed out that, given the results, it appeared many did not vote Labour.

"We are working in a system that means, first of all, that people aren't getting the say they want," she says.

"What we're seeing is millions of votes going unrepresented."

Sam Francis
BBC News, London

All of the London constituencies have now declared, and the numbers are identical to 2017.

Labour has won 49 of the 73 London seats, three more than the party had before the general election, but back up to the levels achieved at the 2017 election. Between 2019 and 2019 they lost three seats through defections.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson and current Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn both won their local constituencies.

The Conservatives have won 21 seats, gaining the ultra-marginal seat of Kensington to cancel out the loss of Putney.

Despite the dramatic win in Richmond the Liberal Democrats now have three MPs in London, one less than they had before the general election.

Mr Umunna, who joined the Liberal Democrats, lost his bid to become MP for the Cities of London and Westminster, while Tom Brake lost in Carshalton and Wallington.

The Daily Telegraph's chief political correspondent shares some quotes from Boris Johnson's speech to Conservative Party staff this morning.

The prime minister is said to have told a gathering at Conservative Campaign Headquarters that the party has created "an earthquake".

The Conservatives have seen off a Liberal Democrat challenge in Cheltenham, though with a reduced majority on 2017.

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The Liberal Democrats have announced the party's deputy leader, Sir Ed Davey, and its president, Baroness Sal Brinton, will become joint acting leaders after Jo Swinson lost her seat overnight.

In a statement, they said a leadership election will take place in the new year.

Ms Swinson said: "Tonight's result is obviously hugely disappointing, in East Dunbartonshire, and across the whole country with Boris Johnson winning a majority.

"I am proud that in this campaign, the Liberal Democrats have stood up for openness, generosity and hope. We were honest about what we believe in and what we were trying to achieve.

“This is clearly a setback for liberal values. But there are millions of people across the country who believe in them. By coming together to fight for them, we can create a positive future."

Baroness Brinton thanked Ms Swinson "for her honest and fearless leadership".

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Boris Johnson has addressed cheering staff at Tory HQ after his win.

He said there had been a political earthquake and that the Tories had won a "stonking" mandate, with seats secured everywhere from Kensington to Clwyd South.

The PM said also said he would lead a "one nation government" for all the people.

Our political correspondent Ben Wright says the PM is still in CCHQ now watching the final results come in.

Laura Kuenssberg
BBC political editor

Without any doubt, the first thing Boris Johnson is going to try to do is have a Queen's Speech on Thursday then bring back the Brexit bill for its first reading - the technical bit of it - on Friday.

At that point, I think they'll probably let Westminster and the new MPs have a bit of a breather.

There is an acknowledgement in No 10 - as there is right across politics - that the body politic is pretty exhausted, is fractious, people have been very angry and burnt out by everything that has happened.

So I think what they will do is take a bit of a pause and come back in January to push through the rest of the Brexit legislation as quickly as they can.

But let's just think briefly about Boris Johnson's trajectory.

He has been famous around the country for more than a decade for being desperate to be the prime minister, even if people haven't been quite sure what he'd like to do with that job.

He is also somebody who divides as much as he delights, and is an extremely controversial figure.

But he has also made a career of doing things that people have told him were impossible - from turning London blue to winning the EU referendum as Brexit's main cheerleader.

Maybe he is a lucky general or maybe he and his team had a strategy they believed in all along.

Either way, it has been an historic victory for a man who has wanted the job so long. Let's see what he does with it.

Read Laura's full analysis

• The exit poll prediction of a big Tory win was spot on - with almost all 650 seats declared, the Conservatives are on nearly 360.
• It's been an awful night for Labour, losing 58 seats - many of them in places the party has held for decades in traditional industrial communities. In fact, you have to go back to 1935 to find a worse loss.
• The Tories took seats from Labour in Wrexham and Redcar at one end of the country and demographic to Kensington at the other. Boris Johnson hailed a historic win and vowed to crack on with Brexit asap.
• Jeremy Corbyn says he won't fight another election but suggests he's not intending to go anywhere soon. Plenty of Labour figures think he should though.
• The message from Labour HQ has been "Brexit is to blame" - the party has won comfortably in some Remain-backing London seats.
• Lib Dem Jo Swinson has lost her seat - her resignation as party leader seems inevitable.
• Her party hasn't had a good night at all - losing front bench spokesman Tom Brake too, and failing to win with big defectors Chuka Umunna and Luciana Berger, even in strongly Remain seats.
• The results are all in for Scotland and it's been a superb night for the SNP, who've gained 13 seats, ending up with 48. The political gulf between Scotland and England has widened significantly as Nicola Sturgeon says the result is a "huge mandate for indyref2".
• In Wales, all the seats are declared too and the first three female Conservative MPs have been elected as the party claimed six key seats from Labour.
• The DUP has had a bad night in Northern Ireland, losing two seats, including senior figure Nigel Dodds.

• The Greens have won one seat, Plaid Cymru four and the Brexit Party none.

Remember, Boris Johnson's opponents made much of the risks of such trade deal, but seemingly to no avail.

Iain Watson
Political correspondent

With Labour’s worst defeat since Michael Foot in the 1980s, you might assume the Labour leader would swiftly fall on his sword.

Jeremy Corbyn has instead called for a period of quiet reflection, and party rules make it difficult to oust him.

But already senior figures are asking how long this period will last.

Senior figures at Westminster and in local government feel delaying an inevitable leadership contest will lead to a similar result in May’s council elections.

But the defeat of the shadow minister Laura Pidcock has eliminated one of the potential left-wing leadership challengers,

And Mr Corbyn seems intent on staying in place until someone from this wing of the party is ready to take over.

It may also stymie attempts by some on the left to install shadow chancellor John McDonnell as an interim leader.

But those who'd prefer Sir Keir Starmer are keen that a new leader is in place soon to challenge Boris Johnson’s Brexit policy.

The battle to establish the reasons for the defeat has already begun.

The leadership narrative that Brexit was to blame will be challenged robustly by those who want the party to change direction.

The outspoken Birmingham MP Jess Phillips is seen as a possible standard bearer for a break from the past - opponents of the Corbyn project believe she may attract new members to the party in a way that former ministers simply can’t.

So the analysis of the defeat will mark out the territory on which a contest will be fought.

He or she who controls the past, controls the future.