Overnight News Digest: Theresa May Wins in Electoral College Victory

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BBC News Jeremy Corbyn calls on Theresa May to resign

Jeremy Corbyn has called on Theresa May to resign as election results point to a hung Parliament.

Speaking following his re-election as the MP for Islington North, the Labour leader said people had voted "for hope for the future".

And he pledged that Labour MPs would make sure the policies in the party's manifesto were "put before Parliament".

Earlier, the party's shadow foreign secretary claimed Labour could form a minority government.

Mr Corbyn, who won his seat with more than 40,000 votes, said at the election count: "The prime minister called this 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's enough to go, actually, and make way for a government that will be truly representative of all of the people of this country."

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This was the moment when Jeremy Corbyn called for Theresa May to resign https://t.co/JMsEbtJGyt#GE2017pic.twitter.com/xm2V8daL4e

— Bloomberg (@business) June 9, 2017

The Guardian Jeremy Corbyn defies doubters as Labour set to gain seats

Jeremy Corbyn has once again defied the expectations of opponents and pollsters with a Labour result that may not necessarily put him in Downing Street, but could deliver a hung parliament rather than the anticipated cull of his MPs.

The man who began his campaign to be Labour leader as a 100-1 outsider, and was routinely derided as unelectable, was on the verge of increasing the number of Labour seats, a prospect seen by many as unthinkable when the election was called on 18 April.

As a series of Conservative target seats stayed resolutely in Labour hands, followed by a string of gains for his party, pre-election speculation about what scale of losses would necessitate a Corbyn exit was replaced by exultant talk of a new style of politics.

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The BBC's latest election forecast - Conservatives to lose seats and be short of a majorityhttps://t.co/jpy6wsvCIX#bbcelection#GE2017pic.twitter.com/eUq5BaraHS

— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) June 9, 2017

Shock hung parliament forecast by exit polls and early seats

​Theresa May is facing a mounting backlash over her "catastrophic" election campaign after an exit poll suggested that her snap election gamble had failed to pay off. […]

The poll suggest Britain is heading for a hung parliament, with Conservatives 12 seats short of the 326 they need for an absolute majority in the Commons.

One senior Tory told The Telegraph: "This is bad, it's worse than bad. Her advisers should walk out of the door now never to return, regardless of the final result.

They should be banished forever. "Can she hang on? She [Theresa] has zero credibility if this exit poll is correct.

"The very best we can get tonight is to end up where we were. The cult of personality and central control has completely blown up in our face."

The Independent Brexit thrown into doubt as Theresa May's election gamble backfires

British politics and Brexit are in disarray after all the signs suggested Theresa May’s election gamble has gone catastrophically wrong.

Updated forecasts indicated the country heading for a hung parliament, with Tories admitting the result would blow the Prime Minister’s Brexit strategy to pieces.

Ms May’s position was also in question with Labour calling for her to quit and senior Tories distancing themselves from the leader, amid reports of potential successors on manoeuvres.

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America's political chaos would be 35% more bearable if our politicians talked like this. pic.twitter.com/exFf0Qd0xx

— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) June 9, 2017