UK general election 2017: Trump offers 'warm support' to Theresa May – as it happened

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Theresa May also confirmed on Friday that her top five cabinet ministers – chancellor Philip Hammond, home secretary Amber Rudd, foreign secretary Boris Johnson, Brexit secretary David Davis, and defence secretary Michael Fallon – would stay in their roles.

But pressure is growing on May to step aside herself, or to sack her two key advisers, Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, to whom many in the party attribute the car-crash campaign performance.

10 Jun 201720.55 EDT

Heather Stewart

A chastened Theresa May has apologised to her party colleagues, after squandering the Conservatives’ majority.

In a contrite interview, May said:

I wanted to achieve a larger majority. That was not the result we secured. And I’m sorry for all those candidates and hard-working party workers who weren’t successful, but also for those colleagues who were MPs and ministers and contributed so much to our country and who lost their seats and who didn’t deserve to lose their seats.

Her explicit apology came after some colleagues were infuriated by an earlier statement in Downing Street that failed to acknowledge the disastrous election result, which many regard as self-inflicted.

Nicky Morgan, who was sacked as education secretary by May, said:

I’m reeling. I think we’re all reeling. I think there’s real fury against the campaign and the buck stops at the top.

Sinn Féin has criticised Theresa May’s decision to try to shore up her minority government with the support of the DUP, with party president Gerry Adams warning that history showed:

Alliances between Ulster unionism and British unionism have always ended in tears.

A spokesman for Sinn Féin – which won in seven Northern Ireland constituencies but will, as always, decline to take its seats in Westminster – told the Guardian there “wasn’t a snowball’s chance in hell” of the party ditching its abstentionism policy.

The party’s Northern leader, Michelle O’Neill, said:

It is no surprise that the DUP have sided with the Tories. Experience shows that unionists have minimal influence on any British government be that on Major, Thatcher or Theresa May.

They have achieved little propping up Tory governments in the past and put their own interests before those of the people.

10 Jun 201720.07 EDT

Matthew Weaver

Bernie Sanders has congratulated Jeremy Corbyn on Labour’s performance in the general election. The Vermont senator – who narrowly failed to win his bid for the Democratic nomination against Hillary Clinton in the 2016 race for the White House – said he had watched the UK results coming in on Thursday and was very pleased about the party’s showing.

“I am delighted to see Labour do so well,” the Vermont senator said in a Facebook post, linking to a Guardian news story. He went on:

All over the world, people are rising up against austerity and massive levels of income and wealth inequality. People in the UK, the US and elsewhere want governments that represent all the people, not just the 1%.

I congratulate Jeremy Corbyn for running a very effective campaign.

Preet Gill made history yesterday, winning Birmingham Edgbaston for Labour (the seat vacated by Gisela Stuart), and in so doing becoming the first Sikh woman elected to the House of Commons. Gill said she hoped she would become “one of many”:

The fact there has never been one before, it’s a big issue.

There have previously been five Sikh MPs – all male – though none were elected in the 2015 general election.

Gill will be joined in the Commons by Tanmanjeet Dhesi, who won for Labour in Slough, and becomes the first turban-wearing Sikh MP.

My colleague Graham Ruddick reports that the election result signals a shift in the media’s role:

May’s setback will raise questions about the influence of Fleet Street on the electorate, given that the majority of national newspapers strongly backed her and the Conservatives. The Guardian reported last week that some of the most shared articles on social media about the general election were from partisan blogs such as Another Angry Voice, The Canary and Evolve Politics, which backed Labour.

The Sun had urged its readers not to “chuck Britain in the Cor-bin” in its last edition before the election, provoking a backlash on social media, while on Wednesday the Daily Mail devoted 13 pages to attacking Labour, Corbyn, Diane Abbott and John McDonnell under the headline “Apologists for terror”.

But, as with other papers in Scotland and across the UK, Scottish Sun is not holding back today:

The uncertain political landscape extends to the Brexit negotiations, which begin in just 10 days’ time … somewhere:

The White House has issued a readout of the call between US president Donald Trump and Theresa May:

President Donald J Trump spoke today with prime minister Theresa May of the United Kingdom to offer his warm support regarding the election.

President Trump emphasised his commitment to the United States-United Kingdom special relationship and underscored that he looks forward to working with the prime minister on shared goals and interests in the years to come.

Ruth Davidson, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, has a snippy reply to that Telegraph front page headline, which reads: “Scots Tories go their own way”.

The Scottish newspaper front pages offer no more succour to the embattled PM – and little to the first minister, either:

9 Jun 201718.42 EDT

Saturday's newspaper front pages

Claire Phipps

This is Claire Phipps picking up the live blog.

Given yesterday’s results – and the days and weeks of newspaper front pages that preceded them – we should probably be reassessing the power of a page 1 to swing voter opinion. But nonetheless, the turning of the (previously supportive) press on the (still) prime minister will surely be giving those in No 10 something to think about tonight.

And here’s the Guardian front page:

9 Jun 201718.23 EDT

Nicola Slawson

In her victory speech, Emma Dent Coad said she would focus on overcoming “unforgivable inequalities” in Kensington.

This constituency is a microcosm of everything that is wrong in this country after seven years of incompetent and uncaring coalition and Tory government.

I will do everything in my power in the next five years to make ‘One Kensington’ an example of the finest qualities of common humanity, mutual respect for all our communities and social justice to create a thoughtful, kind, co-operative and tolerant society where we can all prosper and thrive.

She gave the Liberal Democrat candidate, Annabel Mullin, a special mention for “stealing some Tory votes and letting me through”.

The presidents of France and the US called Theresa May to congratulate her after the election, despite the Conservatives losing their majority, Downing Street says.

US president Donald Trump called the prime minister to offer his congratulations. Both sides agreed they look forward to continuing the close cooperation between our two countries.

The French president Emmanuel Macron called to congratulate the prime minister, and said he was pleased that she would continue to be a close partner.

The president invited the prime minister to visit France at the earliest possible opportunity, and they agreed that the strong friendship between our two countries was important and would endure.

After Ruth Davidson, Tom Tugendhat has become the latest Tory to express reservations about a deal with the DUP:

Following her tweet, Davidson told BBC Scotland she had received an assurance from Theresa May on protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and/or intersex (LGBTI) rights in Northern Ireland.

I was fairly straightforward with her and I told her that there were a number of things that count to me more than party. One of them is country, one of the others is LGBTI rights.

She said she received a “categoric assurance” from the prime minister that an arrangement between the Conservatives and the DUP would see “absolutely no rescission of LGBTI rights in the rest of the UK”.

Some of our younger readers have been sharing their views on the election: