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Ed Miliband rules out 'confidence and supply' deal with SNP
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Apr 26, 2015 10:28am |
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| Author | Nicholas Watt Rowena Mason and Frances Perraudin |
| News Date | Sunday, April 26, 2015 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Ed Miliband has ruled out agreeing to a so-called “confidence and supply” deal with the SNP as he moved to dismiss Tory warnings that Britain would face a constitutional crisis if the Scottish nationalists held the balance of power in a hung parliament.
The intervention by Miliband came as the Conservatives ramped up their rhetoric on the dangers of a post-election deal between Labour and the SNP. Theresa May, the home secretary, said Britain could face its gravest constitutional crisis since the abdication of Edward VIII in 1936. Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, warned of the “deeply alarming” prospect of the SNP “monkey” crawling on Labour’s back.
The Labour leader dismissed the Tory claims when he asserted he was not interested in agreeing to deals with the SNP. He told the Andrew Marr Show on BBC1: “I want to be clear about this. No coalitions, no tie-ins … I’ve said no deals. I am not doing deals with the Scottish National party.
“I’m not interested in deals, no … The way the House of Commons works is that we want to put our Queen’s speech before the House of Commons and the other parties will vote.
“I disagree with them on independence. It would be a disaster for our country. There are other big disagreements: on national defence, on the deficit and a bigger philosophy question. The Tories and the SNP now have something in common. They want to set one part of the country against another.” |
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