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SNP MP Kirsty Blackman tells Newsdrive that she is sad to lose a number of her colleagues, like Angus Robertson and Alex Salmond saying she is "gutted to lose them".

Ms Blackman, who successfully defended her Aberdeen North seat albeit with her vote down more than 15%, says there has been a real squeeze in the vote benefiting Labour and the Tories.

She says she does not think the vote was linked to indyref2 at all, although she says the Tories did run their campaign on that issue.

Ms Blackman says going forward Nicola Sturgeon will be making statements over the weekend on indyref2.

She says there is a "cast iron mandate" for indyref2 due to the Holyrood election last year.

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Theresa May apologised to Conservative candidates who lost their seats in the general election.

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Former Labour MP Margaret Curran says: "This is one of our better results."

The issues of the independence referendum and the argument of "get on with the day job" are what she thinks were reflected in the vote.

Ms Curran says there is a frustration with constitutional politics and she says Jeremy Corbyn managed to pull together a united Labour campaign.

She says: "We're back here and we're arguing good effective politics, which is a real threat to Nicola Sturgeon and a real threat to the SNP."

Asked if the public could be certain Mrs May's government could last for five years, the prime minister said it was important to "to have a government that can take the [Brexit] negotiations through".

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Former head of communications for the Scottish Conservatives, Andy Mcivor says the fascinating thing is that the Scottish Tories are on the surge and English Tories are on the slide.

"You've seen Ruth Davidson's performance keeping the Tories in Downing Street," he says.

He says Ruth Davidson is probably one of the top two or three people in the Tory party in terms of influence nationwide.

Mr Mcivor says Ms Davidson has already effectively said "get us back into the single market" and "look what i've achieved, I've just killed independence".

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Mrs May once again stressed that Brexit negotiations with the European Union would begin in 10 days' time, as planned.

She said it was "incumbent" on her, as the leader of the largest party, to form a government in the "national interest". She said the UK needed a government that could "take forward a plan into the negotiations".

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Former adviser to the SNP Andy Collier says the election result is "kind of bitter sweet, although perhaps more bitter than sweet".

Mr Collier says the sweet was it is still a good result with the SNP still a major force at Westminster.

However he says "it's all about trajectory and they've come down, they have come down with a big thump and have lost their two biggest Westminster figures in Alex Salmond and Angus Robertson".

The journalist says the SNP will have to look at their indyref2 policy and where that goes.

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Newsdrive's Laura Maxwell asks Ross Thomson, who won Aberdeen South for the Conservatives, if he still has faith in Theresa May.

Mr Thomson says: "Theresa May is prime minister, there is no job vacancy, so yes I do."

He says in Scotland this is the best result the Tories have had since 1983 and he asks who would have thought David Mundell would be joined by 12 colleagues at Westminster.

Mr Thomson says in Aberdeen South there was a ""real sense of anger" about indyref2 and he says "when we said 'No' in 2014 we really meant it".

He says this is a "bit of a reality check for the first minister".

Prime Minister Theresa May has told the BBC she is "very sorry" for Conservative MPs who lost their seats in yesterday's election.

She said she "obviously wanted a different result" an would reflect on "what has happened".

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Former Lib Dem leader Lord Menzies Campbell says he is disappointed to lose Nick Clegg who put his "heart and soul" into the European argument.

Lord Campbell says the general election has "undoubtedly weakened" Theresa May.

Of his own party, he says "we lived off scorched earth in the past" and it's a long way to come back from 2015.

He says "It could take us ten years to get back to where we were in 2010" but that this is a "step on the way".

The leader of the Democratic Unionist Party to work with Theresa May "at this time of great challenge."