Ed Miliband has said the pledge of further devolution to Scotland will be fulfilled "no ifs, no buts" amid a row over additional powers for England.
He warned David Cameron not to play "fast and loose" with the constitution in the wake of Thursday's referendum.
The Labour leader said he was "open" to the idea of a new role for English MPs but not building a new English Parliament or "dividing" the Commons.
SNP leader Alex Salmond has said voters were "tricked" by the pledge on powers.
He suggested the timetable for delivering more powers for the Scottish Parliament in the event of a No vote - promised by the leaders of the three main Westminster parties in a joint declaration - was slipping because Mr Cameron could not guarantee his backbenchers, who want more power for English MPs, would vote for it.
'Trap'The prime minister announced on Friday that he wanted tax-raising powers for Holyrood to be introduced at the same time as changes to the House of Commons, ending the anomaly which allows Scottish MPs to vote on English-only legislation, such as health and education.
Some in the Labour Party fear the surprise announcement is a "trap" that could undermine a future Labour government, which would rely on its Scottish MPs to give it a majority on key votes.
Mr Miliband rejected this argument in an interview on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, saying most Labour governments had also had a majority in England.
He refused to be drawn on whether he supports the principle of England-only votes at Westminster, only saying that he was not against "greater scrutiny" by English MPs.
He repeated his call for a national debate on the constitution, saying major changes of the kind being proposed by Mr Cameron could not be drawn up "on the back of a fag packet".
But he suggested the pledge for more powers for Scotland could be dealt with separately, telling Andrew Marr the Scottish commitment was a "clear, not a conditional pledge" and he "was sure that the prime minister would want to keep it".
He said that the prime minister had not raised the English issue with him before they signed their joint "vow" with Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg ahead of Thursday's referendum.
'Non-negotiable'The head of the Better Together campaign Alistair Darling has said the pledge of extra powers for the Scottish Parliament is "non-negotiable".
"It was promised, it has to be delivered," he told the Andrew Marr show. "Anyone who welches on that will pay a very high price for years to come."
"The three leaders gave an absolute commitment. I am confident they will deliver it."
And deputy prime minister Nick Clegg said there were "no ifs, not buts" about the Scottish devolution pledge and it "cannot be made contingent on other constitutional reforms".
The Lib Dem leader, writing in the Sunday Times, suggested the Conservatives were motivated by fears about the rise of UKIP and that "extreme solutions" to the role of English and Scottish MPs at Parliament "could jeopardise the union they purport to defend".
Tory chairman Grant Shapps said there would be no "reneging" on the parties' Scottish commitments but a new English settlement had to be reached "at the same time".
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