The two candidates vying to be replace Kezia Dugdale as Scottish Labour leader have rejected her call for a second EU referendum.

Anas Sarwar and Richard Leonard made their views on the issue clear at a campaign hustings at the party's annual UK conference in Brighton.

Leonard also accused the former leader of trying to blame Jeremy Corbyn for Brexit instead of David Cameron.

In an article for the Daily Record, Dugdale said she partly blames Corbyn as he failed "to use the power of his popular appeal to convince traditional Labour voters to see that Europe creates more good than harm".

Leonard told party members: "I am not persuaded we need a second referendum. The column by Kezia I read today was interesting. I think she is trying to pin the blame on the wrong guy [Jeremy Corbyn].

"The person who is responsible for the mess that we are in over the EU is David Cameron."

He added later: "I think it is premature to start calling for it [a second vote] now."

Sarwar also rejected a further referendum, saying the country had no appetite for one.

He defended the former leader's right to speak on the issue, however, as "she is proud European, and she has always been passionate about the EU."

Both candidates were also quizzed about their views on renewing the UK's Trident nuclear weapons system.

Scottish Labour members previously backed scrapping it but the UK-wide party took the opposite view.

Leonard told party members said he supported nuclear disarmament while Sarwar said the decision had been made by the UK party.

"Jeremy Corbyn has said he is willing to compromise his own position also because of the democratic will of the party with it being in the manifesto in 2017," explained Sarwar.

"I think if he is willing to compromise we should be able to, too."

Sarwar earlier told delegates he would be willing to disagree with the UK party if he felt it was in Scotland's interests.

He said: "It's about saying in a grown-up environment, with an autonomous Scottish Labour Party not being a branch office ... that we can take different decisions in Scotland that are right for Scotland's interests," he argued.

Leonard-supporting MSP Neil Findlay criticised Sarwar over his position on Trident.

Speaking after the event, he told STV News: "He says he wants to put Scotland first but how is calling for the renewal of Trident putting Scotland first?

"We had a vote on it and the members have spoken."