All the latest developments for the snap general election that comes as the UK prepares for difficult Brexit negotiations. All times local (GMT 1).

“Our two parties have enjoyed a strong relationship over many years and this gives me the confidence to believe that we will be able to work together in the interests of the whole United Kingdom.”

“We will continue to work with our friends and allies in the Democratic Unionist Party in particular,” she said.

Speaking outside her official Downing Street residence, the prime minister says she can rely in parliament on the support of her “friends” in Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party after her ruling Conservatives failed to win a majority.

After meeting the queen, Theresa May says she will form a government to provide stability and lead Britain out of the EU .

Theresa May made this election a referendum on herself, then lost it. Seriously, how can she carry on as PM today?

We know Theresa May can't now negotiate Brexit for Britain because she told us losing majority would destroy her authority—and it has.

With votes from nearly all 650 constituencies counted, the Tories has won merely 308 seats, failing to secure required 326 seats, while the Labour Party secures 258 seats.

The Conservative Party has failed to gain an absolute majority in parliament after Thursday’s election, according to the Reuters news agency.

Conservatives are set to be the largest party in parliament but short of an overall majority, according to exit poll projections.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: “The prime minister called the election because she wanted a mandate. Well the mandate she’s got is lost Conservative seats, lost votes, lost support and lost confidence. I would have thought that is enough for her to go actually.”

Conservative leader Theresa May said that if her party wins the most seats and most votes, “it will be incumbent on [the Conservatives] to ensure that stability”.

Kieran Pedley, an analyst with GFK Market Research, told Al Jazeera that Labour has made impressive gains in southern marginals, but that was offset to an extent by some Tory gains in Scotland.

With 343 out of 650 seats declared, the Conservatives remain on course to be largest party – but short of a majority.

Former Business Secretary Vince Cable wins back his Twickenham seat for the Liberal Democrats from the Conservatives.

Labour gain Sheffield Hallam from the former deputy prime minister and former leader of the Liberal Democrats.

The losses are a blow to Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP, which had a near clean sweep in Scotland in 2015.

Labour have taken two seats from the SNP: Rutherglen and Hamilton West and Midlothian.

Angus Robertson, who led the SNP in the British parliament, loses to Conservative Douglas Ross in Moray, northeast Scotland.

Battersea had a Conservative majority of nearly 8,000…Labour have taken the seat #GE2017

Brilliant result in Battersea. Well done to @Marshadecordova – our new London Labour MP for Battersea. #GE2017 #LabourGain pic.twitter.com/Sz7WLw44bx

Exit poll suggests the standing of the parties will be Conservatives 314, Labour 266, SNP 34, Lib Dems 14, Plaid Cymru 3, UKIP 0, Greens 1, Others 18.

The exit poll suggests the Conservatives will be the largest party in parliament but would be short of an overall majority.

Al Jazeera’s Barnaby Phillips says that the Conservatives were hoping to win seats like Darlington – which had a narrow Labour majority and voted strongly in favour of Brexit: “[This loss] suggests at the very least that Theresa May’s desired landslide is fast-disappearing over the horizon.”

Labour and the Tories both up eight points on 2015, a swing from Labour to the Conservatives of 0.2 percent.

The party that wins Nuneaton has won the general election in seven of the last eight contests.

Northern Ireland’s nationalist Sinn Fein will maintain its policy of not taking seats in parliament, says the party’s president Gerry Adams – which will cut the number of seats needed to win a majority.

“We’ve had our fingers burnt by coalition,” said Campbell, referring to his party’s deal with the Conservatives after the 2010 election.

“[Party leader] Tim Farron made it very clear. He said no pact, no deal, no coalition,” former leader Menzies Campbell told the BBC.

Exit polls suggest the Liberal Democrats will increase their number of seats from eight to 14.

This is regarded as a safe seat. Al Jazeera’s Barnaby Phillips, reporting from London, says election experts believe something like 75 seats are too close to call.

Senior Labour Party adviser Emily Thornberry says that if the exit poll is correct then Prime Minister Theresa May should consider resigning: “If this is right, I think she should consider her position. I think she should go. She has manifestly failed.”

Mike Kane, Labour MP for Wythenshawe and Sale East, told Al Jazeera: “We’ve only had an exit poll, but this will be one of the greatest reversals in modern British history … and the reputational damage for both the Conservative Party and for Britain in those negotiations is lasting.”

Conservative Defence Minister Michael Fallon expressed caution. “Let’s see some actual results to see if this is borne out – this is a projection … These exit polls have been wrong in the past.”