Alex Salmond: David Cameron needs to get a sense of humour

Alex Salmond has responded to a video David Cameron has shared which shows him joking that he will write the Labour manifesto.

The Conservatives have been making much of a warning that voting Labour could result in a Labour-SNP coalition with Ed Miliband beholden to the Scottish National Party over key issues affecting the UK.

Alex Salmond says this he was simply making a light-hearted joke about Jim Murphy and the PM needs a sense of humour.

He said: “The point made in a light hearted way was that Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy had been slapped down by his party bosses at Westminster and told that he would have no role in Labour budget.

“David Cameron is clearly a prime minister with both a people by-pass and a sense of humour by-pass.”