Sturgeon: I WILL prop up Labour

NICOLA Sturgeon last night vowed to help Jeremy Corbyn into power – despite admitting he would not be ‘credible’ as prime minister.

The Scottish First Minister said the SNP would look to prop up the Labour leader in a ‘progressive alliance’ if the general election results in a hung parliament. Miss Sturgeon confessed she did not think Mr Corbyn was ‘credible as an alternative prime minister’.

But during a BBC One interview with Andrew Neil, the SNP leader said: ‘We would look to be part of a progressive alliance that pursued progressive policies’.

Tory party chairman Sir Patrick McLoughlin said last night: ‘This would mean Jeremy Corbyn propped up by a weak and unstable coalition just days before the Brexit negotiations start.’

The SNP won 56 of the 59 Scottish constituencies in 015, but it is expected to lose seats to the Tories because of opposition to its plans for a second independence referendum.