During his visit to Holy Rood RC High School this morning, Jim Murphy called for Nicola Sturgeon to ‘stop the spin and come clean on her plans for a second referendum’.
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Meanwhile the other parties were all vocal even though it’s the weekend!
The Westminster parties have been accused of panicking as senior Tories resorted to lurid claims about the prospect of the SNP having a role in influencing the UK government, while Ed Miliband appeared to bow to Tory pressure on working with the SNP to prevent David Cameron returning to Downing Street.
In today’s Mail on Sunday, Theresa May makes the bizarre claim that the SNP and Labour working together would be the ‘biggest constitutional crisis since the abdication’.
Meanwhile in an interview on Marr, Ed Miliband appeared to have been pushed by the Tories into claiming he will not work with the SNP, leaving him facing questions on whether he prefers David Cameron returning to Government to working with the SNP to prevent another Tory Government.
Commenting, SNP General Election Campaign Director Angus Robertson said:
“If one thing has been made abundantly clear, it is just how alarmed the Tories are at the prospect of SNP MPs preventing them from returning to Government.
“The comments from Theresa May are quite frankly bizarre, and speak of real panic in Tory circles at the prospect of a strong team of SNP MPs locking them out of Government.
“If there are more anti-Tory MPs than Tory MPs elected on 7 May, we can lock David Cameron out of Downing Street and work together to pursue a progressive alternative to cuts.
“In such a situation, the only way David Cameron could return to office is if Ed Miliband preferred to see the Tories re-elected rather than working with the SNP to keep them out.
“If Labour let the Tories back in, they would never be forgiven by people in Scotland or in the rest of the UK.
“This underlines why Scotland needs a big team of SNP MPs so that we can make Scotland stronger at Westminster.”
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