The SNP launches its manifesto today in Edinburgh. Nicola Sturgeon will be arguing that the policies in the document are for the benefit of the whole of the United Kingdom, which is a way of reassuring former no-voters who might back the SNP, and also of appealing to the left wing faction of the Labour party.
Scottish Labour will be claiming that many of those policies such as voting for lower tuition fees in England are in fact a theft from their own party’s ideas, and that the SNP is in fact using Labour as a think tank for its own manifesto.
But what is also interesting is how the party that is scrutinising Sturgeon’s claims today could end up working with her parliamentary colleagues from May. As James noted yesterday, Angela Eagle rather shifted the party’s line on this by telling the Sunday Politics that Labour would ‘speak to any party that has got representation in the House of Commons in order to try to build a majority for a Queen’s Speech that the country desperately needs’.
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