An unholy alliance of Corbyn and Sturgeon would bring the country to its knees

Some elections are a clash of ideas, others a personality contest. The 2019 general election is shaping up to be a process story. Mountains of newsprint and swathes of commentary taken up with questions over the result. Will there be a hung parliament? Which parties could do deals with each other? What would the price of any such deal be? Would X really put Y into Downing Street?

It’s a game the leaders are buying into themselves. While launching her campaign in Edinburgh, SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon, asked her audience “how much more influence Scotland could have if the SNP are in there holding the balance of power in Westminster in a hung parliament”, adding that she wanted to “lock the Tories…