article_snippet: Scottish Labour MPs are defying Ed Miliband by telling voters on the doorstep voters would not support a post-election deal with the SNP.
article_snippet: In an indication of a growing split in the party over the party election strategy, several MPs are indicating that several MPs would not be prepared to back any arrangement with Scottish Nationalists after
article_snippet: One Scottish Labour MP said: ‘Labour MPs on the doorstep are saying “if you vote for us us won’t do a deal with the SNP”.
article_snippet: One Scottish Labour MP said: ‘There’s no prospect of any deal with the SNP and I’m making that clear on the doorstep.
article_snippet: In constituencies where there was a strong No vote in last year’s independence referendum, or where there are large numbers of middle-class Scots who traditionally vote Lib Dem or Tory, Labour’s candidates are now telling people on the doorstep there will be no pact with the SNP.
article_snippet: Ian Davidson, Labour chairman of the Commons Scottish affairs committee ruled out a deal with the SNP .
article_snippet: Ian Davidson, Labour chairman of the Commons Scottish affairs committeethe Commons Scottish affairs committee, is among those who insists any deal with the SNP is ‘simply not credible’.
article_snippet: ‘those who insists any deal with the SNP are simply not trustworthy,’ he said.
article_snippet: LibDem voters and tell Tory and LibDem voters that We won’t be dealing with the SNP,” the MP said.
article_snippet: People who are thinking of the SNP might see it as belligerent nonsense.
article_snippet: Our view is that, in the same way Our would not countenance putting Ukip in charge of the EU, Our would not countenance putting the SNP in charge of a country that the SNP want to rip apart.
article_snippet: That was seen as a rebuke to Lib Dem Business Secretary Vince Cable, who has mused publicly on the idea of a Lib-Lab-SNP coalition.
article_snippet: Yesterday, Labour’s biggest private donor suggested that working with the Tories would be preferable to a deal with the SNP.
article_snippet: Last night former Labour welfare minister Frank Field warned the party leadership that a Labour-SNP deal could lead to a breakaway
highlights_snippet: Scottish Labour MPs say Scottish Labour MPs will quit the party over such an arrangement .
  