A number of senior Labour MPs in London constituencies have called for the party to be clearer in its support for a public vote, including shadow home secretary Diane Abbott and shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry.

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The SNP's Ian Blackford says the Brexit Party "have picked up one seat" in Scotland, but he points out that UKIP previously had one seat in the country.

He says "we do have to accept that there are divisions in politics" and politicians "have a responsibility" to try and "heal divisions".

"I'm appalled by the nature of public discourse," he says. Politics and parties have "to be about building a big tent approach".

"We're used to minority government in Scotland, and we have to find a way to deal with that" when passing Scottish government budgets, he states.

"There is no majority support for no deal" in Westminster, he adds.

Change UK - the party formed by breakaway Tory and Labour MPs - failed to win any MEPs, securing just 4% of the vote.

And now Anna Soubry, the party's Brexit spokeswoman, has accused her leader Heidi Allen of "bizarre" behaviour for suggesting their supporters engage in tactical voting.

It emerged last week that Ms Allen had wanted to advise Remain-supporters to vote for the Lib Dems instead of Change UK outside London and the South East.

Former Tory minister Ms Soubry tweeted that "over 600,000 people went and voted for us, a genuinely new party" which was an "extremely good" result, she claimed.

But she criticised Ms Allen, telling BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I think it is rather bizarre for an interim leader on the eve of a poll to tell people essentially not to vote for their party."

She added: "You do not stand candidates and then say to people 'we are going through a complete farce, please don't vote for them'."

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Conservative MP Sam Gyimah says his party needs to find a way forward after "tough" European elections which saw the Tories widely rejected by the electorate.

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has clarified an earlier tweet in which he called for a "public vote".

He said while he wants a general election, he thinks it's unlikely, tweeting: "So yes if, as likely GE [general election] not possible, then I support going back to the people in another referendum."

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Conservative MP and former Brexit minister Steve Baker said last night's success for the Brexit Party posed a "challenge" to the Tories.

Mr Baker, who is deputy chairman of the European Research Group, said: "We don't want to be out Faraging Nigel Farage."

"He is what he is and he's been tremendously successful. We need to be ourselves," he said, adding: "But that really does mean deciding who we want to be."

The pro-EU Lib Dems took second place with 20% of the vote - doing best in Gibraltar (77%), Richmond upon Thames (52%) and Kingston upon Thames (47%).

Conservative Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Liz Truss, has tweeted that her party's "terrible election results" are "because of the failure to leave the EU when we said we would".

She called for the UK to leave the EU on 31 October "deal or no deal".

After Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell tweeted a call for a public vote, his team tells the BBC's political editor his position has not changed.

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The Brexit Party's Ann Widdecombe - a former Conservative minister - says "the nation showed pretty consistently yesterday" that people wanted Brexit to be completed.

"My message to the losing side is... democracy works on loser's consent" she says, adding that Remainers have turned the country into "an international laughing stock".

She says that people have voted for pro-Remain parties because of other issues such as climate change.

"There are various issues under WTO" she says, when challenged on how she would deal with the 'Most Favoured Nation' rule.

"I don't believe anything's going to be a walk in the park," she says, adding that she looks forward to standing as an MP if the UK does not leave the EU.

Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has tweeted that the UK must leave the EU on 31 October "with or without a deal".

Congratulating his sister Annunziata Rees-Mogg on her election as an MEP for the Brexit Party, he said there must be "no more equivocation".

Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott has tweeted saying Labour must "listen to our members and take a clearer line on a public vote".

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Education minister Nadhim Zahawi says the results are a "wake-up call" for MPs to deliver Brexit.

“If the Conservative Party does not deliver on the Brexit promise we made then we will be in trouble," he tells BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

He says that in order to secure a good deal, the option of no deal should be kept on the table.

Mr Zahawi adds that he is supporting former Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab to lead the Tories because he "has a plan and that plan is implementable".

"Not only does he have a plan to leave the EU, he has a vision for this country," he says.

Shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, has tweeted his backing for a public vote.

He said: "we must unite our party & country by taking issue back to people in a public vote."

Votes across the EU have been cast in the 2019 European elections, ushering in a new chapter of politics in the 28-member bloc.

The winning candidates are set to hold positions in the European Parliament for the next five years.

Among those to look out for are a controversial Italian veteran, the rising star of France's far right, a jailed Catalan separatist, an openly gay former mayor and popular Polish progressive, a leading light of Dutch populism and a German Green vowing to do battle with corporations.