Eurovision 2023: Sweden wins the 2023 Eurovision song contest with Tattoo by Loreen – as it happened

1.00am BST

And that is a wrap from me too. Thank you so much for reading, and joining in the comments. As ever it has been a blast, and by far my favourite night’s work of the year. Here are the main takeaways:

• Sweden have won the Eurovision song contest for the seventh time.

• Loreen became only the second person to win the contest twice, after her song tonight, Tattoo, followed her success with Euphoria in 2012.

• The UK was hosting the contest in Liverpool on behalf of Ukraine. Ukraine’s Tvorchi came in sixth. The UK’s Mae Muller finished 25th, second-from-last.

• Finland’s Käärijä came second overall with Cha Cha Cha, which had topped the popular vote.

• Sweden will now host the 2024 contest on the 50th anniversary of Abba’s win with Waterloo.

Have a great rest of your night / day / afternoon. I am sure I will see you again somewhere around the Guardian’s website soon.

Here is the rest of our coverage tonight …

Josh Halliday on the victory for Sweden:

Jack Seale’s review for the Observer:

And from Nadeem Badshah a reminder of why the contest had to be held in Liverpool:

12.52am BST

Here is the BBC’s social media sign off from the event. Presumably somebody at SVT has with a very heavy heart just opened up their new eurovision_2024_hosting_budget.xls file.

WHAT A NIGHT!

Thank you to our #Eurovision2023 acts, to our incredible hosts, to Liverpool for welcoming us, to Ukraine for allowing us the honour of hosting and to all of you across the world for joining us ❤️ pic.twitter.com/50nDrggRRK

— BBC Eurovision (@bbceurovision) May 13, 2023