Richard Leonard said there would be no arrangement with the nationalists to bolster a minority Labour government

Jeremy Corbyn will reject a deal with the SNP even if he needs nationalist votes to pass a Queen’s Speech, the Scottish Labour leader has insisted.

Richard Leonard ruled out any type of agreement with Nicola Sturgeon to bolster a minority Labour government.

The first minister has set out demands including a second independence referendum as her price for installing Mr Corbyn in Downing Street. A confidence and supply deal similar to that struck between the Conservatives and the Democratic Unionist Party has been mooted.

Mr Leonard said yesterday: “There will be no deals with the SNP, there is no pact with the SNP, there will be no deals with the SNP, there will be no coalition with the SNP.

“We’ve said that we are