Nicola Sturgeon: I will lead negotiations at Westminster
The SNP leader was on Radio 4 earlier to talk about her party’s possible role as kingmakers after May 7.
She used her now familiar line that any “anti-Tory majority” – i.e. any combination of Greens, Plaid and SNP should work together to “lock” the Conservatives out of Downing Street. She said that Labour and these parties should do this even if Labour are not the biggest party come May 8.
Ms Sturgeon was also clear in her determination that she would lead any discussion with Ed Miliband should they come up.
As she is not an MP and would not have a right to sit in Westminster some critics have said that she should not lead negotiations on any power sharing deal there. She says it doesn’t matter. People know she is leader of the SNP and people voting for the SNP know she can be “trusted” to do the right thing.