UK Poll: 59% of voters say Labour SNP government would be worst general election outcome, UK election opinion poll, General Election opinion poll
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UK Poll: 59% of voters say Labour SNP government would be worst general election outcome
Nearly three-fifths (59%) of UK voters said they would be "dismayed" by a Labour-SNP alliance, a YouGov poll for The Times found.
This compares with 54% who said they would be dismayed by a Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition, 52% dreading another Conservative-Lib Dem coalition, 49% a Labour majority and 45% a Tory majority.
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A quarter said they would be "delighted" or would not mind a Labour-SNP alliance, compared with a third broadly positive about Lab-Lib coalition, 37% positive about another Tory-Lib pact, 41% backing a Labour majority and 46% a Tory majority.
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Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has pledged to "lock the Tories out of government", with her predecessor Alex Salmond yesterday confirming the SNP would side with Labour to vote down a minority Tory government's Queen's speech.
Labour leader Ed Miliband has ruled out a formal SNP coalition and went further this week, pledging the SNP would have no say in drafting a Labour budget despite the SNP's warning that their support for his government would come at a price.
Today's YouGov poll of 8,271 UK voters, including 633 in Scotland, suggests the SNP could be on course to take about half of former Liberal Democrat and Labour voters in Scotland, and even a fifth of former Conservative voters.
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Half of 2010 Lib Dem voters said they will definitely or may possibly vote SNP in May while 44% of former Labour voters and 20% of former Conservative voters said the same.
Excerpts of a Scottish breakdown of the poll, published in The Times, found more than two-thirds of people in Scotland think Labour "has seriously lost touch with ordinary working people".
Three out of four people in Scotland said Labour needs to change its policies to become fit for government again while more than half think the party has not yet faced up to "the damage it wrought on the economy".
Nearly half (45%) said the Labour Party in Scotland used to care about people like them but now does not, compared with 26% who said they still do.
About one in ten (11%) said Labour have never cared about people like them and just 3% said they now care about them after previously dismissing them in the past.
A total of 69% said Labour "has seriously lost touch with ordinary working people".
Almost a third (29%) of people in Scotland said they would be "delighted" with the SNP supporting a minority Labour government.
Two-thirds of people in Scotland would be dismayed by another Tory-Lib coalition while 52% would not like a Lab-Lib Democrat coalition.
About half (51%) said the SNP cared about them but 31% said the SNP does not represent their interests.
More than two-thirds (70%) said Ukip was full of "oddballs and extremists", the highest proportion in the UK.
Over half (53%) of people in Scotland said they want to stay in the European Union (EU), compared with a quarter who want to leave.
This is higher than the UK as a whole, where less than half (45%) want to stay in the EU and over a third (34%) want to leave.