article_snippet: John Cryer, chairman of the entire Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP), is understood to have told Labour leader Ed Miliband aides that Labour leader Ed Miliband MPs will not tolerate a repeat of the situation after the 2010 election, when Gordon Brown tried to stay in power by striking a deal with Nick Clegg, but without consulting Nick Clegg .
article_snippet: As the polls stand, Labour will not win enough seats to form an administration, and Labour only option might be to try to stitch together a three-way ‘grand coalition’ with the nationalists and Lib Dems.
article_snippet: The SNP – which currently has just six Westminster seats out of a total of 59 in Scotland – is on course to win as many as 56, mainly at Labour’s expense.
article_snippet: Although Mr Miliband insisted on Friday that talk of an agreement with the SNP was ‘a piece of nonsense’, Mr Miliband has stopped short of ruling the SNP out.
article_snippet: Last night, Labour MP Graham Stringer demanded that the leader listen to the leader party.
article_snippet: I do not think there is any way that the PLP would support a pact with the SNP because the PLP would do such long-term damage to the party’s electability,’ Labour MP Graham Stringer said.
article_snippet: It is not just harming We vote in Scotland –
article_snippet: Mr Miliband Mr Miliband insisted that talk of an agreement with the SNP the SNP was 'nonsense' but stopped short of ruling the SNP out .
article_snippet: Labour’s former Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, said on Thursday Mr Miliband did not know why his party had not ruled out a pact, adding that his party ‘couldn’t possibly do a deal with a party that wants to be out of the United Kingdom and give up our nuclear deterrent’.
article_snippet: Labour nerves have been rattled by the successful launch of a new Tory campaign poster, which shows a miniature Mr Miliband in the top pocket of former SNP leader Alex Salmond, who is expected to win a Westminster seat.
article_snippet: One Labour MP told The Mail on Sunday:
article_snippet: This has been accepted in principle by Mr Miliband’s office.