Reforms to give Scottish Labour greater autonomy will be debated at a final meeting of the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) on Tuesday morning.

If passed, the reforms will see Scottish Labour gain full control over policy making, including in reserved areas.

The party's Scottish Executive Committee (SEC) would administer membership of local Scottish branches and a permanent representative on the NEC with full voting rights would be appointed by the party in Scotland.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has in recent days told NEC members he would like to see the proposals delayed, however, for further discussion on how the Scottish NEC representative would be elected.

A source close to the Labour leader said on Sunday, following the third NEC meeting, that Corbyn's opposition to the proposals going through is because he "wanted to give Scottish and Welsh executives the opportunity to decide how it would be implemented, for example would representative be chosen by one-member-one-vote or another mechanism".

If the proposals are not delayed by the party's ruling body, they will go to a vote at the party's conference later on Tuesday afternoon.

The meeting will be the fifth NEC meeting in a week in which the autonomy proposals will be discussed.

No formal vote was taken on the proposals at meetings on Saturday, Sunday or Monday after many members in the room made it clear they would not block the proposals.

Scottish Labour's Kezia Dugdale was present at all three meetings.

On Saturday, she expressed her anger at any proposal which would see the autonomy plans delayed after announcing them just five days ago.

STV News understands Dugdale did not speak at the latest NEC meeting on Monday but Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones and Birmingham Ladywood MP Shabana Mahmood both expressed their opposition to any delay.

In October, Jeremy Corbyn endorsed the original proposals put forward by Dugdale and the pair released a joint statement.

They said: "We agree that Scottish Labour will become a more autonomous party.

"We will ask Labour's NEC, the Scottish Executive Committee and other bodies of the party to agree new arrangements that will deliver a more autonomous Scottish party and also more democratic institutions across the UK."