Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith will go head-to-head in a debate at the SECC in Glasgow on Thursday night.

The hustings event is part of a series organised for the Labour leadership election campaign and the only one to be taking place in Scotland.

Voting has already begun to decide the winner of the contest but will not close until September 21, with the results announced on September 24.

Corbyn will be speaking at a rally at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Glasgow before Thursday's hustings, before campaigning in Dundee and Edinburgh on Friday.

Smith, MP for Pontypridd, will reportedly be returning to Scotland for additional campaign events next week.

Both men have written articles this week outlining their commitment to Scotland.

Writing in the Herald on Thursday, Smith pledged to invest £20bn into the Scottish economy if elected to lead a government at Westminster.

He said: "A key part of my plan would be a £200bn British New Deal - a huge investment fund to renew our country, providing £20bn through the Barnett formula for Scotland.

"It would of course be for the Scottish Government to decide how this money is spent but it would offer a major opportunity to invest in giving the next generation the skills they need and making sure our older people are properly looked after."

Smith added: "I'm also promising to make taxation much fairer. Super-wealthy individuals and corporations continued to do incredibly well since the economic crash, while many ordinary people struggle to make ends meet."

Meanwhile, Corbyn said in an article for The Daily Record on Thursday that he would not enter into an alliance with the SNP were he to win a general election as leader of the Labour Party.

The Islington North MP said he was "not looking for an alliance with the SNP", before qualifying: "I don't see a party that welcomed George Osborne's corporation tax cuts, relentlessly attacked local government and is committed to a benefit cap as reliable allies for a radical Labour Government."

He added: "The Scottish Parliament has had many opportunities to combat austerity and make a difference but the SNP have failed to take them."

The Labour leadership contest was triggered after a string of shadow cabinet resignations in the wake of the Brexit vote on June 23, followed by a vote of no confidence in Corbyn by the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP).

Corbyn first won the leadership in September 2015, obtaining 59.5% of the vote.

His challenger has been backed by several prominent party figures, with London mayor Sadiq Khan endorsing Smith, along with Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale.