Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon has offered Ed Miliband a new deal to help him take power and "lock David Cameron out of Downing Street".
Writing in the Observer, Ms Sturgeon challenged him to take his party into an anti-austerity alliance with the SNP - despite Mr Miliband ruling out any formal coalition.
Her words come a day after claims – strenuously denied by the SNP leader – that she had told the French ambassador she wanted Mr Cameron to stay as prime minister.
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According to a leaked memo about the February meeting, she allegedly said Mr Miliband was not "prime minister material".
But Ms Sturgeon has reinforced her earlier offer to the Labour leader, telling him: "If together our parties have the parliamentary numbers required after 7 May, and regardless of which is the biggest party, will he and Labour join with us in locking David Cameron out of Downing Street?"
The SNP leader also uses the article to repeat denials that the memo claims are "100% untrue – having been comprehensively rejected by both the French ambassador and consul general".
A coalition government seems a likely result after next month's election, with the result seemingly on a knife-edge and no one party looking like getting an overall majority.
The Conservatives have seized on the prospect of a Labour-SNP coalition with posters showing Mr Miliband in the pocket of Ms Sturgeon.
The Labour leader has insisted "there will be no SNP ministers in any government I lead" - but crucially has not vetoed a looser arrangement that would see the party offering voting support to shore up Labour.
The SNP is glowing from a big boost in popularity in the wake of last year's independence referendum and - ironically - is expected to rob Labour of many of its Scottish MPs.
Ms Sturgeon was also seen by many as the best performer in the leaders' TV debate.
With just over four weeks to go, latest opinion polls put the Tories and Labour virtually level-pegging.
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Opinium research for The Observer has the Conservatives down one point on 33%, the same score as Labour (unchanged).
UKIP was up one point on 14%; Liberal Democrats down one on 7%, Greens unchanged on 7% and the SNP were up one on 4%.
A YouGov poll for the Sunday Times has the Conservatives overturning a four-point Labour advantage to now lead 34% to 33%.
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