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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Elgot and Severin Carrell

Labour will never strike deal with SNP, Keir Starmer to pledge

Keir Starmer (left) and the Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sarwar during a campaign visit to Glasgow in April
Keir Starmer (left) and the Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sarwar, who will give a speech taking the same hard line towards the SNP. Photograph: John Linton/PA

Keir Starmer will vow Labour will never deal with the Scottish National party and make it explicit his party would go into minority government rather than enter talks with nationalists, in a new effort to spike Conservative attacks on a “coalition of chaos”.

The Labour leader is expected to ramp up his pledge that the party would give no quarter to the SNP and would not grant an independence referendum, which will form part of his summer campaign.

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