Nicola Sturgeon demands Jeremy Corbyn coughs up extra 4bn a year for Scottish NHS as price for coalition

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NICOLA Sturgeon handed Jeremy Corbyn a multi-billion-pound ultimatum in return for propping up a Labour government.

The SNP leader demanded he cough up an extra 4billion a year for the Scottish NHS by massively ramping up health spending across the UK.

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon demands a multi-billion-pound ultimatum if there is to be a coalition
Jeremy Corbyn was told he would have to compensate Scotland for the cost of Tory cuts
Jeremy Corbyn was told he would have to compensate Scotland for the cost of Tory cuts

She also ordered him to reverse a 1.5billion a year real terms cut to the Holyrood parliaments budget as part of a pledge to end austerity.

The nationalist leader said Edinburgh had been denied a further 3billion a year it should have got under its funding formula before ex-PM Theresa May handed extra cash to the DUP to prop up her government in 2017.

Finally, she told Mr Corbyn he would have to compensate Scotland for the cost of Tory cuts which she put at 13.9billion over the past decade.

Scots First Minister Ms Sturgeons pricey demands for a Westminster coalition came on top of her demand that Labour agrees to allow a second independence referendum next year.

Launching her partys manifesto, she said: After this election there is every chance that the SNP will hold the balance of power in Westminster. A party seeking our support must be prepared to set out how they will repair the damage of a decade of austerity and put back money that has been lost.

Bookies William Hill put the odds of a Labour/SNP coalition at 16/1.

Ms Sturgeon did not answer questions about how the splurge she is demanding would be paid for, except to point out savings from scrapping Trident.

And she condemned Mr Corbyns handling of anti-Semitism in his party. She added that in coalition, her MPs would be able to pressure him on the issue and give a degree of reassurance to voters.