Miliband: No special deals for SNP

Ed Miliband is expected to say today that Scotland would get no “special deals” from Labour if it forms the next government – denying Tory claims that a minority Labour administration would be forced to do deals with the nationalists.

“It is a distraction, offered in the final desperate days of the Tory campaign to divert your attention from the truth of their own record,” he will say on a campaign visit to Hastings.

“Under a Labour government, there won’t be any special deals for Scotland.”