article_snippet: Salmond, addressing the party’s Spring conference in Glasgow, also said SNP would form a left-wing alliance with Labour at Westminster to raise the top rate of income tax to 50p.
article_snippet: Mr Salmond also boasted about how closely Mr Salmond could work with Ed Miliband as the SNP unveiled the SNP support for tax hikes.
article_snippet: the SNP will back Ed Ballsthe BBC’s Andrew Marr controversial scheme to balance the country’s books by increasing the income tax rate from 45p to 50p for those earning over £150,000.
article_snippet: Ed Miliband has claimed that Ed Miliband would not go into a formal coalition with the SNP, but the nationalists yesterday backed a string of Labour policies in the latest sign of how the parties could work together to push through a left-wing agenda .
highlights_snippet: Also said SNP would form a left-wing alliance with Labour at Westminster .