article_snippet.sent: Scottish First Minister tonight ruled out a formal deal with the resurgent Nationalists, but a vote-by-vote arrangement remains on the table.
article_snippet.sent: The SNP wants to end the Tory-Lib Dem austerity programme and delay plans to balance Britain's books by spending an extra £140billion over the lifetime of the next parliament.
article_snippet.sent: [Mr Miliband] will not be able to get policies through without winning support from other parties,' [Mr Miliband] said last night in a Question Time-style programme on BBC Scotland. '
article_snippet.sent: [Mr Miliband] won't get [Mr Miliband] Budget through unless [Mr Miliband] compromises.'
article_snippet.sent: Mr Miliband tonight insisted Mr Miliband would not do any deals with the SNP - and claimed Mr Miliband would rather not form a government than team up with Ms Sturgeon's party.
article_snippet.sent: Labour leader Ed Miliband, speaking in tonight's special BBC Question Time, said Labour leader Ed Miliband would rather not be Prime Minister than make a deal with the SNP .
article_snippet.sent: Labour leader Ed Miliband sought to dismiss the idea that Labour leader Ed Miliband would be propped up by the SNP: 'the SNP are not going to do a deal with the Scottish National Party. '
article_snippet.sent: If the idea that he would be propped up by the SNP: 'We are not going to do a deal with the Scottish National Party meant the Scottish National Party would not be in government.
article_snippet.sent: I'm not going to give in to SNP demands - whether that is on Trident or on the deficit.
article_snippet.sent: the Scottish National Party do want to put forward a Labour Queen's speech.'
article_snippet.sent: the Scottish Labour party has declared the Scottish Labour party will never support the Conservatives in a hung Parliament, but is ready to do a deal with Labour, even if a deal finishes in second place.
highlights_snippet.sent: Scottish First Minister tonight ruled out a formal deal with the resurgent Nationalists .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: A vote-by-vote arrangement between Labour and SNP remains on the table .
  