Definition: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: The SNP will force Ed Miliband to abandon planned spending cuts from Labour's very first budget if the party holds the balance of power after the election, Alex Salmond said today. The former Scottish First Minister said the SNP would hold all 'the power' if a Labour government needed its votes to survive – and even claimed the party's surge in support showed it had been the real winner of last year's independence referendum. He said the party would demand an end to austerity – with billions of pounds more borrowing and debt – as the price of propping Mr Miliband up in power.Former Scottish First Minister said the SNP would hold all 'the power'He said the SNP would force Labour to abandon austerity after the electionWould mean billions of pounds of extra borrowing for spending splurgeTory minister Anna Soubry said the threat to control UK budgets 'terrifying' 
 Question:'Now he is talking up the prospect of a vote-by-vote deal with Labour - one _ still refuses to rule out.

Ed Miliband