article_snippet: ‘calling the tune’ in a deal with Labour at the centre of the Tory election campaign.
article_snippet: Salmond offensive comes after a day in which four members of Labour’s shadow cabinet refused repeatedly to say whether four members of Labour’s shadow cabinet would do a deal with the SNP in the event of a hung parliament.
article_snippet: This would sink any prospect of Ed Miliband winning a Commons majority.
article_snippet: Again and again, Ed Miliband refuses to rule out this possibility.
article_snippet: On every vote, every budget, every decision, the SNP would exact a high price for Ed Miliband support.
article_snippet: Everyone in Britain will pay with higher taxes, more spending, more debt and weaker defences in dangerous times.
article_snippet: The Prime Minister's offensive comes after a day in which four members of Labour’s shadow cabinet refused repeatedly to say whether four members of Labour’s shadow cabinet would do a deal with the SNP in the event of a hung parliament .
article_snippet: A Labour parliamentary candidate has rejected a £1,000 donation from Tony Blair towards A Labour parliamentary candidate election campaign.
article_snippet: The Prime Minister's  has pledged £106,000 to help Labour campaigns in 106 marginal seats.
article_snippet: But there has been unease about Tony Blair links to foreign corporations and dictatorships and candidates have been under pressure to hand back the so-called ‘blood money’.
article_snippet: Tony Blair is under huge pressure from Tony Blair Scottish MPs to rule out a deal with the nationalists.
article_snippet: Labour energy spokesman Caroline Flint refused four times to rule out a deal with the nationalists on the Andrew Marr Show on BBC1.
article_snippet: We do not want, We do not need and We do not plan to have any coalition with the SNP.
article_snippet: It is also clear that Scotland is swinging behind SNP candidates the length and breadth of the country.
article_snippet: At the same time, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon removed the biggest obstacle to a Labour-SNP deal by ditching Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon red line on Trident.
article_snippet: Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon could back a minority Labour government in key votes even if the party had not secured an agreement to scrap the nuclear deterrent.
article_snippet: Labour MPs say the party has ‘decided internally’ not to rule out an SNP pact before the election.
article_snippet: This will be particularly concerning to English voters who fear the price of concessions Labour-SNP will seek to extract from Labour in return for handing Mr Miliband the keys to No 10.
article_snippet: Lips pursed, Mr Miliband appears pensive and childlike as the larger-than-life Scottish nationalist looks down on Mr Miliband with a patronising smirk.
highlights_snippet: PM warns of the ‘chilling and real prospect’ of a Labour and SNP coalition .
  