By Jon Craig, Chief Political Correspondent
Labour has been rocked by a new opinion poll in Scotland suggesting the SNP has almost doubled its lead in the past month.
More than half of voters certain to take part (52%), said they would vote SNP, against 24% backing Labour. A month ago the figures were 46% and 30%.
The poll is a severe blow for Labour's Scottish leader Jim Murphy, who has been energetic in his efforts to clawback support for Labour from the SNP.
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Mr Murphy told Sky News the poll showed the nationalists were "David Cameron's little helpers" and could make him an "accidental Prime Minister".
According to the new poll, by TNS, support for the Conservatives is 13% (down one percentage point), the Liberal Democrats 6% (up three points) and the Greens 3% (down one point).
The disappointing poll came as Ed Miliband outlined the party's manifesto - which focuses heavily on fiscal responsibility - in Manchester.
The only consolation for Labour is that the poll was conducted between 18 March and 8 April, mostly before the two Scottish TV debates last week in which Mr Murphy performed strongly.
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Asked about a hung parliament, 44% of Scottish voters told TNS they would prefer a Labour-led government compared with 15% who backed a Tory-led administration.
The most popular single option was a Labour-SNP coalition, with 25% support, though this has been ruled out by Ed Miliband and Nicola Sturgeon.
Asked about the dire poll results during a campaign visit to Glenrothes, Mr Murphy told Sky News: "This is another difficult poll for the Scottish Labour Party.
"If this poll was repeated on election day the SNP would win a lot of seats.
"If Labour loses a lot of seats in Scotland David Cameron would be absolutely delighted.
"David Cameron cannot win seats here in Scotland.
"He has to get someone else to beat the Labour Party for him and at this election, based on these opinion polls, the SNP are David Cameron's little helpers.
"If the SNP takes seats off Labour and reduces the size of the Labour Party, it's increasing the chance of David Cameron clinging on to power and Scotland would make David Cameron the accidental Prime Minister."
Mr Murphy denied that Labour's manifesto pledge to cut the deficit was unpopular with Scottish voters, but Nicola Sturgeon, campaigning in Glasgow, said Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls was contradicting Mr Murphy's message to Scottish voters.
The SNP First Minister also said the deficit should be tackled by spending on housebuilding, not austerity measures.
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