The winners and losers of the topsy-turvy snap election campaign
The Sun takes a look at who's thrived and who's nosedived over the past seven weeks
AFTER a gruelling seven-week campaign, and a topsy-turvy night, the 2017 General Election (or at least the first of them) is finally over.
But who has emerged with their reputation enhanced - and who is heading for the political bargain-basement?
THE WINNERS
Jeremy Corbyn has been widely derided for his shambolic personal style, his extreme views and his eccentric lifestyle.
But he struck an unlikely hit with wide swathes of the public, bringing out millions of young voters who were inspired by his hard-left manifesto.
Ruth Davidson was also an unlikely figure when she took over as leader of the Scottish Tories in 2011 - a 32-year-old kickboxing lesbian at the head of a party in seemingly terminal decline.
Now the Conservatives are Scotland's second biggest party, taking 12 seats off the SNP last night with an unashamedly pro-Union pitch.
YouGov faced mockery when - after weeks of huge poll leads for the Tories - they produced a computer model showing a hung parliament.
A few weeks later, their model has been proven almost exactly correct. Who's laughing now?
The comeback kids are a group of MPs including the Conservative Esther McVey and Lib Dems Vince Cable, Jo Swinson and Ed Davey who are re-entering the Commons after two years away,
The Liberal Democrats won back the seats they lost in 2015, while McVey was parachuted into the safe seat of Tatton.
George Osborne, the previous MP for Tatton, seemed to have a very enjoyable night as he tore into his old rival Theresa May.
Less than a year after she sacked him as Chancellor, Osborne - now editor of the Evening Standard - produced a string of increasingly vicious front pages about the PM, culminating in the headline "Queen of denial".
ITV won the battle of the broadcasters by hiring Osborne and Ed Balls as the pundits for their election night show hosted by Robert Peston.
The channel was praised for its refreshing and light-hearted but rigorous anlysis - and unlike the BBC, they managed to use presenters who haven't been doing the job for half a century.
Amber Rudd came very close indeed to losing her seat in Parliament, but just managed to cling on and is now seen as a future Tory leader.
She was one of the Conservatives' top media performers throughout the campaign, raising her profile and putting her in pole position to succeed Theresa May.
Brenda from Bristol summed up the mood of the nation when she cried, "Oh God, not another one!" after being told of the snap election.
And now a public sick of political setpieces is living in fear of a second election after this one resulted in a hung parliament.
THE LOSERS
Theresa May called the snap election to shore up her own authority and give her a mandate to negotiate Brexit.
She ends the campaign a diminished figure, stripped of her Commons majority and more "weak and wobbly" than "strong and stable".
Nicola Sturgeon is the only person who had as bad a night as the Prime Minister - losing 21 seats as the Tories swept across Scotland.
The SNP boss insisted that the General Election was nothing to do with Scottish independence, but after her dismal result she has had to admit that her dream of separation may be dead - for now.
Tim Farron was once expected to capture dozens of seats for the Lib Dems as he harnessed the support of the 48% of Britain who voted Remain.
But following a distinctly lacklustre campaign, where the most memorable moment was him telling a voter "Smell my spaniel", the party won just four extra seats as they lost high-profile MPs including Nick Clegg.
Diane Abbott started the campaign claiming that you could hire a policeman for just £30, and ended it being sacked as Shadow Home Secretary for one day.
In between, she repeatedly became a national laughing stock with a string of bizarre TV gaffes - but arguably she had the last laugh, increasing her majority to 35,000.
Rogue independent MPs Simon Danczuk and George Galloway both tried to sneak back into Westminster after being disgraced.
But both were far from victory - Galloway came third in Manchester Gorton, while Simon Danczuk lost his deposit in Rochdale as he took just 1.8 per cent of the vote.
Paul Nuttall was forced to quit as Ukip leader after just a few months as the party slumped to 2 per cent and ended up with zero MPs.
His election campaign was memorable mostly for threatening to kill criminals himself, and repeatedly calling Leanne Wood "Natalie" in a devate.
Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill were untouchable until recently, the Prime Minister's closest advisors who outranked most Cabinet ministers.
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Now the pair have been widely blamed for the Tories' poor campaign, and for erecting a wall around the PM which stopped her realising how bad things were.
Laura Kuenssberg, the BBC political editor, had to spent most of the campaign being mercilessly abused by pro-Corbyn trolls who accused her of being a Tory stooge.
She managed the criticism expertly - but on election night, she accidentally said the C-word live on air, to mass hilarity.