Tories, Labour fight over SNP
An intense political dispute is underway between the Conservative and Labour parties over the future role of the Scottish National Party in the upcoming general elections.
Labour Party leader Ed Miliband accused Prime Minister David Cameron of putting the UK's future at risk.
The comments by Miliband came after Cameron warned of the dangers of a Labour-SNP tie-up.
He said other Tories were "ashamed" of their election strategy.
"David Cameron should not be talking up a nationalist party in order to try and get them to do well in Scotland to take votes off Labour to try and crawl back into Downing Street," he said.
"He should be taking on a nationalist party as I am doing. David Cameron is now threatening the integrity of the UK with the games he is playing,” said the Labour Party leader.
With 16 days to May 7 elections, polls suggest that there will be a hung parliament with the SNP holding the balance of power as the third largest party.
Political experts predict that both the Conservatives and Labour will fall short of winning 323 seats to reach a parliamentary majority.
“The two biggest parties, the Conservatives and Labour are fighting over the potential relationship with the Scottish National Party,” Professor Rodney Shakespeare told Press TV.
“The Scottish National Party make it 46 in the General Elections, it can get 56 out of 59. But however you look at it, the SNP is going to have a larger considerable number of seats. In this situation neither Conservatives, nor Labour will have sufficient number of overall majority, the London-based professor of economics noted.
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