Election 2015: It’s a win-win situation for the SNP’s 'Scotweiler'

Whoever wins this general election, the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon will be a force to be reckoned with.

Not since the Jacobite rising of 1745 has there been "such hysteria in England about the Scots", says Ewen MacAskill in The Guardian. David Cameron is not that far behind The Sun's depiction of SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon as the "Scotweiler" with his insistence that the SNP "does not want our country to succeed".

Ed Miliband has ruled out any deal with the SNP, even, apparently, if it means the Conservatives holding onto power. The fact is, the SNP wins regardless of who becomes prime minister. If the Tories emerge as the biggest party and put together a coalition, SNP MPs will "engage in guerrilla tactics" against unpopular Tory policies.

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Emily Hohler
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Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.