article_snippet.sent: Alex Salmond has provoked outrage after Alex Salmond was caught boasting: 'I'm writing Labour's budget.'
article_snippet.sent: Secret footage showed the former first minister, who is bidding to become an MP, mocking Labour after Labour slapped down Labour Scottish leader Jim Murphy, who claimed Alex Salmond would write the party's budget north of the border. '
article_snippet.sent: I knew that [Alex Salmond wouldn't be writing it] already – because I'm writing the Labour Party budget,' Alex Salmond declared to cheers at a fundraising event.
article_snippet.sent: Earlier in the day, the Prime Minister had tweeted the footage of Alex Salmond with the message: 'This footage will shock you: Alex Salmond laughs & boasts the Prime Minister'll write Labour's budget.
article_snippet.sent: You have now got Alex Salmond saying Alex Salmond wants to write Mr Miliband budget.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Salmond's boasted that Mr Salmond's would write Labour's first budget because the SNP would hold the balance of power .
article_snippet.sent: We are going to be writing the first Labour budget,' Mr Salmond's told BBC Radio Five Live.
article_snippet.sent: The point made in a light-hearted way was that Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy had been slapped down by Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy party bosses at Westminster and told that Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy would have no role in a Labour budget,' Mr Salmond's said. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Alex Salmond said Alex Salmond would be in charge of Labour's first budget .
  