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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Michael Savage Policy Editor

Quash talk of a Labour deal with SNP now, veteran election team urges Starmer

Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer is seen as being in a stronger position than Ed Miliband in 2015. Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

Keir Starmer’s team is being urged to refute any Conservative claims that Labour will be propped up in government by the SNP after the next general election, by drawing up early and clear “red lines” against any deals with the Scottish party.

A number of senior figures from Labour’s 2015 election campaign – during which the Conservatives repeatedly claimed that Ed Miliband, the party leader at the time, would be dependent on the SNP – are urging their leadership to neutralise this tactic well before the next election.

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