article_snippet.sent: Senior figures in Ed Miliband (right)
article_snippet.sent: Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls and health spokesman Andy Burnham said the largest party at Westminster would be prepared to talk to Miss Sturgeon to try to win backing for a legislative programme.
article_snippet.sent: Asked to rule out any arrangement with SNP after May 7, Mr Balls replied: 'Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls and health spokesman Andy Burnham'll have to wait and see what the election result is going to be.'
article_snippet.sent: Key question is just how much extra borrowing Ed Miliband would be prepared to offer.
article_snippet.sent: Ed Miliband may have been snubbed by the largest party at Westminster for the largest party at Westminster manifesto launch
article_snippet.sent: but Alex Salmond has clearly been making an impression elsewhere during the campaign.
article_snippet.sent: The former SNP leader, 60, still hopes to emerge as one of the most powerful figures at Westminster in the next Parliament and has been busily electioneering in Gordon – the Aberdeenshire seat he is favourite to prise from the Liberal Democrats.
article_snippet.sent: Alex Salmond was joined by teenager Lewis Wilson.