A coalition pact between the Conservatives and Labour after the election may be the only way to keep the UK together if the Scottish Nationalist Party holds the balance of power at Westminster, a former Tory chairman has suggested.
Lord Baker of Dorking said such an agreement could avoid the "nightmare" of a minority Labour administration depending on SNP votes to get English legislation on to the statute book, which would "stretch the constitution of our country to breaking point".
Writing in The Independent, the former education secretary accepted that a deal between David Cameron and Ed Miliband was "quite unthinkable" at the moment, but pointed out that in Germany Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats governed with the Social Democrats.
Lord Baker argued: "What is at risk is the continuing unity of the United Kingdom. In order to preserve that unity another way should be found.
"This could be a joint government of the Labour and Conservative parties: quite unthinkable at the moment, and at this time likely to be rejected by both of them - but this is what has happened in Germany."
Lord Baker's intervention follows a warning from former prime minister Sir John Major that the SNP would enter any deal with Labour with the "overriding aim" of "prising apart" the union.
In a sign of the influence the SNP hopes to wield after the 7 May poll, former first minister Alex Salmond has claimed Scotland will be able to "call the tune" at Westminster.
Mr Salmond, who is standing for the Gordon constituency in May, believes a large group of SNP MPs will lead to "progress for Scotland".
SNP Westminster Leader Angus Robertson said: "Labour spent two and a half years working hand-in-glove with the Tories in the No campaign, so it's no surprise that so many Tories feel so at home with Ed Miliband's party.
"This follows Labour Lords and MPs backing working with the Tories, which only adds to the reasons why far more people in Scotland trust the SNP rather than Labour to keep the Tories out of government."
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