Election 2015: Parties row over Salmond's Budget 'joke'

Alex Salmond has said his suggestion he would be writing Labour's Budget if it won power in May was meant as a "light-hearted" remark.

David Cameron tweeted a video of the ex-Scottish first minister at an SNP fundraising event on 13 April and said voters would be shocked.

But Mr Salmond said the prime minister clearly had a "sense of humour bypass" while Labour leader Ed Miliband the suggestion of SNP influence as "total nonsense".