Hot on the heels of her impressive performance in Thursday night's election debate Scottish Nationalist Party leader, Nicola Sturgeon, is in the headlines here again this morning after The Telegraph's revelation that she secretly supports another Conservative govt led by David Cameron
The SNP leader, has privately said that she would "rather see" David Cameron win the general election because Ed Miliband,her party's alleged preferred ally, is not "prime minister material", a leaked memo seen by The Telegraph has revealed.
The plot thickens however with Sturgeon now denying any such comments and Ed Miliband saying
What it shows is that while in public the SNP is saying they don't want to see a Conservative government, in private they are actually saying they do want a Conservative government.
Former SNP leader but still, in my eyes very much the puppet master, Alex Salmond, has recently ruled out any support for Cameron as I reported on these pages
The BBC carries the latest developments here
We know politics is a game of spin,half-truths and denial but the question of who holds the balance of power, and how they choose to use it, is the key issue as we head into the final run to the tape and with no overall majority forecast
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