article_snippet.sent: verbal mauling of the Labour leader comes after the Tories were accused of 'descending into the gutter' for claiming that Mr Miliband may 'stab the country in the back' by doing a deal with the SNP to get into power.
article_snippet.sent: But today, Mr Miliband on BBC1's Andrew Marr Show insisted that Labour could not take power without the support of the SNP, and claimed the prospect was 'actually deeply alarming'.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Miliband on BBC1's Andrew Marr Show said Mr Miliband would have to take help from the Scottish party 'crouching on Mr Miliband back like a monkey' - making it impossible for Mr Miliband to govern in the interests of the whole UK.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Miliband on BBC1's Andrew Marr Show said that Labour could not take power without the support of the SNP .
article_snippet.sent: Mr Miliband hit out at the Conservatives for the Conservatives campaign, saying: 'the Conservatives are so desperate the Conservatives are reduced to trying to set one part of the country against another.'
article_snippet.sent: [he is cut off]' the Conservatives have made the prospect of a Labour administration that's reliant on SNP votes one of the central planks of the Conservatives election campaign in the last fortnight.
article_snippet.sent: But Mr Miliband has repeatedly insisted that Mr Miliband will not make any 'deals' with the SNP to become Prime Minister.
article_snippet.sent: And Mr Miliband told Andrew Marr today: 'No coalition, no tie-ins, I have said no deals - I have been clear about that.
article_snippet.sent: Asked explicitly whether Mr Miliband was ruling out a confidence-and-supply agreement, Mr Miliband replied: 'No deals.'