article_snippet: The former Scottish First Minister said the Scottish National Party would vote down a Tory Queen's Speech if the Scottish National Party holds the balance of power after the election.
article_snippet: Latest polls suggest SNP will gain dozens of seats in Scotland, depriving the Commons Labour of a majority and able to call the shots in Westminster.
article_snippet: With opinion polls suggesting SNP are headed for dozens of gains from Labour and the Liberal Democrats north of the border, Mr Salmond - who is standing in the Gordon seat being vacated by veteran Lib Dem Sir Malcolm Bruce - would say only that Ex expects the Scottish National Party to win 'a barrel-load' of seats at Westminster.
article_snippet: Mr Salmond rejected Labour's argument that the party with the most seats after the May 7 poll will have the opportunity to form the new government, insisting that the key question is which leader can command a majority in the Commons. '
article_snippet: The Tories would have to go straight effectively for a vote of confidence - usually the Queen's Speech, although it could be otherwise, of course, and we'd be voting against,' said Mr Salmond. '
article_snippet: Mr Salmond said Mr Salmond had 'no idea' whether a Labour government emerging from such a process would have Ed Miliband as a Labour government emerging from such a process leader, and suggested that Ed Miliband was wrong to have ruled out formal coalition with The SNP so firmly . '
article_snippet: If I were Ed Miliband, I wouldn't have ruled The SNP out,' said Mr Salmond.
article_snippet: Asked what Mr Salmond saw as the probable outcome, Mr Salmond said: 'I think probable would be vote-by-vote (support for Labour), and possible would be confidence and supply.'
article_snippet: A new poll of voters in Scotland this week put Labour down to just 27 per cent, which Professor John Curtice says could leave the party with just two MPs, the same number as the Tories .
article_snippet: Mr Salmond said it was 'bad politics' for Mr Cameron to float the prospect of English votes for English laws on the morning after last year's independence referendum and said it was now 'not a question of if, but when' a second referendum on separation from the rest of the UK would take place.
article_snippet: A Conservative spokesman said: 'Mr Salmond has confirmed Mr Salmond would sabotage the democratic will of the British people in order to make Ed Miliband prime minister. '
article_snippet: That would mean chaos for Britain, with Ed Miliband Ed Miliband dancing to Mr Salmond tune.