Nicola Sturgeon will today launch an extraordinary bid to ‘ lead the UK ’ as she unveils a string of policies apparently tailor-made for a power-sharing deal with Labour . The SNP leader will unveil a manifesto including proposals for British foreign policy , welfare payments , energy bills and English university tuition fees . Several of her election pledges overlap with Labour policy , including slashing tuition fees in England from a maximum of £9,000 a year to £6,000 , and rolling back competition in the English NHS . Others are calculated to drag a minority Labour government to the left , including halting the roll-out of Iain Duncan Smith ’ s popular changes to benefits and cancelling the Trident nuclear weapons system . Scroll down for video . Control : The Tories warn SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon will be Ed Miliband 's puppet master if he becomes Prime Minister after the election . Several election pledges in Miss Sturgeon 's manifesto overlap with Labour policy , including slashing tuition fees in England from a maximum of £9,000 a year to £6,000 , and rolling back competition in the English NHS . The SNP also wants the UK to formally recognise Palestine as a state , give energy regulator Ofgem the power to force suppliers to cut prices and to increase public spending on infrastructure in northern England and Wales . At the heart of the SNP ’ s manifesto are plans for what Miss Sturgeon has called ‘ modest ’ spending increases funded by yet more borrowing – but which in fact total £180billion over five years . Scotland ’ s First Minister , who is not herself running for a Westminster seat , said yesterday the SNP had much in common with Left-wing Labour MPs and aimed to build a ‘ progressive alliance ’ for people ‘ right across the UK ’ . ‘ There is an opportunity to build progressive alliances for progressive policies . It is a real rather than a pretend alternative to austerity , ’ she told the BBC ’ s Andrew Marr Show . Today ’ s SNP election manifesto will be the first to be the focus of intense national scrutiny . Polls suggest the party is on course for a landslide victory north of the border , winning as many as 50 seats and holding the balance of power at Westminster . That could trigger constitutional turmoil of the sort that followed the 1910 election , when Irish Nationalists surged and ended up with more than 70 seats . In the years that followed , there was bitter conflict and the larger part of Ireland eventually seceded from the UK . The huge surge in support for the SNP could see senior Labour figures such as Jim Murphy ( left ) and Douglas Alexander ( right ) lose their seats . The latest Scotland-wide YouGov survey shows the SNP on a record 49 per cent , up three , with Labour trailing on 25 per cent , down four . The Conservatives were on 18 per cent and Liberal Democrats on just four per cent . The scale of the shift in traditional Labour strongholds in Scotland is unprecedented in modern European politics . Even senior Labour figures , including the Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy and the shadow foreign secretary and the party ’ s election campaign coordinator , Douglas Alexander , are facing defeat . The SNP will declare today that a ‘ strong team ’ of SNP MPs in Westminster would help ‘ rebalance the UK - both politically and economically - from the chronic over-dominance of the City of London , which has harmed the overall UK economy and left regions of England neglected ’ . Miss Sturgeon insisted those who had asked Scotland to remain in the UK in last year ’ s independence referendum could not now object to it calling the shots at Westminster . ‘ We were told by leaders of the No campaign during the closing stages of the referendum debate that Scotland ’ s voice really mattered . Indeed , we were told that Scotland shouldn ’ t leave the UK but lead the UK , ’ she said . ‘ So it is more than a bit rich , now that Scotland has decided to remain part of the Westminster system , for anyone in London or elsewhere to try and imply that Scotland ’ s voice shouldn ’ t be heard or that Scotland ’ s voice somehow becomes an illegitimate one if people here decide to elect a large number of SNP MPs. ’ However , the First Minister will face tough questions at today ’ s launch over her plans for ‘ full fiscal autonomy ’ or effective ‘ home rule ’ , which would see almost every power apart from foreign affairs and defence devolved to Holyrood . It would end the generous Barnett Formula that funds Scotland . The Institute for Fiscal Studies has predicted that a ‘ fiscally autonomous ’ Scotland would have a £7.6billion black hole in its finances .
Sturgeon will today unveil SNP manifesto as a 'bid to lead the UK ' Several of her party 's election pledges will overlap with Labour policies . Others are calculated to drag a minority LAbour government to the left . These include cancelling Trident and halting Tory changes to benefits .