article_snippet.sent: Ed Miliband reveals that Nicola Sturgeon party’s manifesto, to be published tomorrow, will include pledges in policy areas which don’t even directly affect Scotland.
article_snippet.sent: It will be the first time that the SNP has ever set out policies designed for other parts of the UK – even though people in England, Wales and Northern Ireland cannot vote for people in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
article_snippet.sent: Nicola Sturgeon also gives an ‘absolute guarantee’ that Nicola Sturgeon will not use success in this year’s General Election as a reason to push for another poll on breaking up Britain.
article_snippet.sent: Campaign trail: The leader of the Scottish National Party is applauded by former leader and local candidate Alex Salmond during campaigning in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire yesterday .
article_snippet.sent: I can also give an absolute guarantee that ’s General Election is not about independence or about delivering another referendum, no matter how many SNP MPs may be returned to Westminster in May.’
article_snippet.sent: In his first major contribution to this year’s Election campaign, the former Labour Chancellor says an influx of SNP MPs at Westminster would turn Scotland into ‘Neverendum land’.
article_snippet.sent: Also writing exclusively in today’s Scottish Mail on Sunday, the former Labour Chancellor says:
article_snippet.sent: [The SNP] need to spell out what exactly The SNP] intend.
article_snippet.sent: What’s more, most Scots do not want to live in Neverendum land.
article_snippet.sent: We are now told that the General Election is not about independence.
article_snippet.sent: That’s what The SNP] said in 2011 in the Scottish elections.
article_snippet.sent: With polling experts saying that Labour has only a 1 per cent chance of forming a majority Government in a majority Government own right, the SNP’s support is likely to be vital in passing any Budget drawn up by a Miliband administration.
article_snippet.sent: But SNP sources told the BBC’s Newsnight that since the 2011 Fixed-term Parliaments Act, this is no longer the case.
highlights_snippet.sent: ‘lead the UK’
  Party manifesto to include pledges in policy areas which don’t even directly affect Scotland .