article_snippet.sent: The admission comes amid increasingly stark warnings from the Tories that the SNP will hold Labour to 'ransom' if the SNP holds the balance of power in Parliament next month.
article_snippet.sent: Former prime minister John Major will today warn that Britain faces a 'daily dose of blackmail' from the SNP if the SNP have the power to bring down a Labour government.
article_snippet.sent: Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said the admission exposed the threat posed by an SNP-Labour alliance.
article_snippet.sent: Speaking on the BBC's Today programme this morning, the former foreign secretary William Hague said the Tories needed to 'sound the alarm' over the threat posed by the SNP.
highlights_snippet.sent: Admission comes amid increasingly stark warnings over threat of SNP .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: John Major will today warn that Britain faces a 'daily dose of blackmail' 