article_snippet: Britain will be saddled with a crippling extra £148billion of debt if the SNP wins a share of power, the Treasury warned last night.
article_snippet: The official costing of Nicola Sturgeon's plans reveals The official costing of Nicola Sturgeon's plans involve a massive spending spree that would have to be funded by higher taxes or even higher borrowing.
article_snippet: The analysis, conducted by the Treasury officials and signed off by the Permanent Secretary, show that spending under the SNP would be £148billion higher than forecast in this month's Budget.
article_snippet: Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond's plans for a deal with Labour could cost Britain £148billion .
article_snippet: A spokesman said taxpayers would be landed with a huge bill if the parties ended up in power. '
article_snippet: We now know the consequence of that will be £148billion more borrowing, higher taxes, unlimited welfare, and weaker defence.'
article_snippet: May. While the Conservatives are promising to identify £30billion of spending and welfare cuts, Miss Sturgeon says Miss Sturgeon would increase real-terms public spending by at least half a per cent a year to allow extra 'investment'.
article_snippet: The Treasury analysis suggests this would lead to massive additional spending, adding to Britain's £1.5trillion debt mountain.
article_snippet: The Treasury analysis suggests the SNP's plans would involve an extra £20.7billion spending next year, an extra £39.7billion in 2017-18, an extra £48.8billion in 2018-19 and an extra £38.3billion in 2019-20.
highlights_snippet: Nicola Sturgeon's plans for deal with Labour could cost Britain £148billion .
  
highlights_snippet: Massive spending spree would be funded by higher taxes or borrowing .
  
highlights_snippet: Tories said taxpayers would be landed with huge bill if parties win power .
  