article_snippet: Senior Tories are considering plans to run a minority government if the Conservatives emerge as the largest party in a hung parliament.
article_snippet: ‘Senior Tories would have to go straight effectively for a vote of confidence, usually the Queen’s Speech, although Senior Tories could be otherwise, of course, and we’d be voting against.
article_snippet: a second referendum on independence: .
article_snippet: the number of Nationalist MPs elected in May: .
article_snippet: I wouldn’t come to Westminster to make up the numbers.
article_snippet: ‘Does Scotland need more people?
article_snippet: So if Labour joins us in that pledge, then that’s Cameron locked out.
article_snippet: And then under the (Fixed-term) Parliaments Act that Westminster passed but nobody seems to have read, you’d then have a two-week period to form another government – and of course you want to form another government because this might be people’s only chance to form another government.
article_snippet: He said it was a ‘fib’ spread by Labour that the party with the most seats automatically won the right to try to form a government – pointing out that Labour’s first government in 1924 was formed after Labour’s first government in 1924 came second.
article_snippet: The only way to protect Trident, keep Britain together and safeguard the economy is to vote Conservative.