Labour Party Refuses to Rule out Teaming up with SNP

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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The shadow energy secretary, Caroline Flint, has announced that the Scottish National party is not the “social conscience” of Labour as she categorically refused to rule out a coalition after the election. The upcoming May election is predicted to cost Labour party seats in Scotland to the SNP. The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, and other senior figures within the party have come under increasing pressure to end speculations of a possible deal with the SNP.

Most recently, PM David Cameron asked Miliband to explicitly rule out a deal with the SNP “if he cares about this country.” Soon after Cameron’s remarks, former Tory chairman Lord Baker suggested that a grand coalition between the Conservatives and Labour might be required in order to avoid the SNP holding the balance of power at Westminster. In response to the growing pressure, Flint revealed on Sunday that her party will take no lectures from the SNP about how it could “somehow be more progressive then Labour.”

Flit stressed that “we are focused on winning a Labour majority government. Let me say this: we do not want, we do not need and we do not plan to have any coalition with the SNP,” adding that “there is going to be a choice at this election between who will sit in Number 10. It is a choice between Labour or the Conservatives forming a majority government.” She alleged that “every vote that is cast for the SNP makes it more likely that David Cameron will retain the keys to No 10.”