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Alex Thomson
Below the Forth railway bridge, in front of her 56 Westminster MPs, Nicola Queen of Scots pledges to fight austerity – and fails to mention “independence” or “referendum”.
The UK Independence Party’s only sitting MP has ruled himself out of the running to be the party’s next leader after the resignation of Nigel Farage.
Matt Frei
The fear factor worked. Go to bed with Nigel and you wake up in a love triangle with Ed and Nicola was a prospect that cowed voters into the foetal position of continuity.
Gary Gibbon
Three party leaders have now resigned within an hour and a half, but Ed Miliband’s must be the biggest emotional shock to the individual concerned.
Small parties are likely to feel short-changed after getting millions of votes but very few seats in parliament. Do we need a different system?
Labour have failed to understand the nature of the SNP challenge and are paying the ultimate price.
Nick Clegg resigns as party leader as senior Lib Dem figures including Vince Cable, Danny Alexander, Ed Davey and Charles Kennedy also lose seats.
An independent inquiry is to be held into election polls for consistently under-estimating the Conservative lead over Labour.
As Labour leader Ed Miliband resigns after a crushing defeat in the general election, there are several likely successors, including Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Chuka Umunna.
After failing to win the South Thanet seat, Ukip leader Nigel Farage admits to disappointment on a professional level but says that on a personal level he has “never felt happier”.
Cathy Newman
I was expecting surprises. But I thought I knew what kind of surprises. That exit poll left me momentarily stunned, and the guys in the graphics department so gobsmacked it took them a while to punch the figures in…
Gary Gibbon
If the exit poll is right, the Tories will have lost something like only 10 seats or so to Labour. And as the results come in we may find they may have pinched some off Labour.
We should be skeptical of the exit poll showing the Conservative close to a majority – but it might indicate the first mass tactical vote in UK history
Gary Gibbon
Things could be shaken up in the days to come in ways many of us won’t have forseen.
Unless the polls are criminally inaccurate, a majority government is impossible. So the choice facing people as they put their crosses on the ballot paper is like a proxy vote.