Former Labour MP Tom Harris has been reminiscing about election night 2015, when he lost his Glasgow seat. 

He recalls being asked repeatedly why he lost: 

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The final polling stations close at 20:00 (19:00 BST), with the result set to be reported immediately afterwards.

A turnout of 65.3% was recorded at 17:00 local time (16:00 GMT).

A re-cap of today's events so far:

• Labour's John McDonnell has pledged to offer protections against foreign takeovers for British firms and to increase income tax only for people earning more than £80,000

• He also discussed Marxism and what there is to learn from Das Kapital 
• Health secretary Jeremy Hunt admitted that it was "not acceptable" that the Tories have failed to hit A&E targets for the last two years but said he could fund plans for 10,000 more mental health staff
• Home Secretary Amber Rudd has refused to commit to the 2015 pledge to cut immigration to "tens of thousands"
• The Lib Dems have committed themselves to keeping the pensions "triple-lock" but better-off pensioners would lose the winter fuel allowance under their plans
• Nigel Farage says UKIP will survive despite losing all their seats but one in the local elections. He said the party was needed to prevent "back sliding on Brexit"

There's been a surge in voter registration since an early election was announced.

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Over in France, polling firms Kantar and Ipsos/Sopra Steria are suggesting that the abstention rate - the number of people who do not turn up to vote - will be 26%, external, the highest level since 1969.

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Labour's manifesto will include plans to protect British companies from foreign takeovers, should the party win power on 8 June, John McDonnell has said.

Speaking at a campaign event in east London, the shadow chancellor said: "Our fears are, yes, takeovers take place, workers are not protected and pensions are raided as well.

"So we will tackle that in the manifesto with a series of proposals for legislation to protect our economy, protect the companies and protect the workers."

The trade union Unite, which is the Labour Party's biggest financial backer, has called for a "takeover commission" to assess the impact on jobs and society from bids.

Unite's general secretary Len McClusky last month said that businesses were more vulnerable to foreign takeover because of Brexit and the weaker pound.

The Sunday Times Rich List has highlighted the fortunes, external of some of the most influential donors in last year's EU referendum.

New entrant Arron Banks donated £8.1m, almost half the sum behind campaigns to leave. His fortune was valued at £250m.

The leading donor for the campaigns to remain was Lord Sainsbury. Worth a total of £560m, he gave £4.2m to try to keep Britain in the EU.

The list's compiler, Robert Watts, said he had expected to see a "chilling effect" on the fortunes of the wealthy because of Brexit. But it didn't materialise, partly because of a bouyant stock market.

Reality Check

Labour is pledging not to raise income tax for those earning less than £80,000 a year as part of an election "personal tax guarantee".

The shadow chancellor said those on more than £80,000 would pay "a modest bit more" to fund public services.

Despite local election losses last week, John McDonnell said he believed Labour would win the 8 June election.

The Tories, who have also ruled out a rise in VAT, say there is a £45bn black hole in Labour's tax proposals.

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The 1983 Mental Health Act would be replaced with new laws tackling "unnecessary detention" under Tory plans for England and Wales.

The Conservatives also pledged 10,000 more NHS mental health staff by 2020 and to tackle discrimination against those with mental health problems.

But Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt told the BBC that a failure to hit A&E targets was "not acceptable".

Opponents said without extra money, the Tory pledges were based on "thin air".

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UKIP "will survive" as an electoral force despite a drubbing at last week's local elections, former leader Nigel Farage has said.

He told ITV's Peston on Sunday that his successor Paul Nuttall was "doing fine" and said UKIP was still needed, to prevent any "back sliding" on Brexit.

Neil Hamilton, UKIP leader in the Welsh Assembly, told the BBC "cosmic forces", not Mr Nuttall were to blame.

Mr Nuttall has predicted that UKIP voters who backed the Tories will come back to his party.

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The home secretary has refused to say whether the Conservative manifesto will repeat their 2015 pledge to cut net migration to the "tens of thousands".

Amber Rudd told the BBC the manifesto was "not going to be identical to the last one" and said things had changed since 2015 because of Brexit.

The target, set by David Cameron in 2010, has never been met and recent figures put net migration at 273,000.

The PM indicated in April that she would stick with the aim.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph reports, external the European Commission’s own lawyers saying a €100 bn Brexit bill would be "legally impossible" to enforce on Britain.

It says member states "appear to have ignored the Commission's own advice" by demanding the sum.

The inflated bill has merely "deepened the rift" between Brussels and Downing Street, the paper says.

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Liberal Democrat Alistair Carmichael has responded to John McDonnell's appearance on the Andrew Marr Show earlier, when he was asked if he was a Marxist.

Mr Carmichael said: "John McDonnell seems to think it's 1917, not 2017. But the Marxism we're seeing in the Labour Party right now has more in common with Groucho than Karl. 

"Groucho Marx once said that politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."