Jeremy Corbyn has said he would welcome a Scottish Labour vote over the thorny issues of replacing Scotland-based Trident  at its conference in Perth .

Scottish Labour is to decide whether or not to discuss the issue which has caused a rift within the party.

The Labour leader who is staunchly anti-Trident  has said  that a vote against the nuclear deterrent at the party’s Scottish conference on Sunday would help his attempts to change Labour policy at Westminster.

Labour remains committed to renewing Trident nuclear weapons system, which is based at Faslane on the Clyde, despite it being strongly opposed by Mr Corbyn.

And Labour's only surviving Scottish MP has insisted the party could have different policies on the renewal of Trident north and south of the border.

Shadow Scottish secretary Ian Murray said moves to make the party north of the border more autonomous meant it could "have a different position on anything it wants".

But he also said that party would stand on a UK manifesto for the 2020 Westminster elections.

Scottish Labour has said it wants to use the conference to encourage voters to "take a fresh look" at the party.

Mr Corbyn said: “I think it might be an encouragement to many people in the rest of the UK to listen very carefully to what’s being said at the Scottish conference. There are similar debates going on all across the party in Britain.

“I was only elected myself some 60 days ago and I have done my best to open up the possibility of that kind of open debate within the party.”

While SNP MSP Christina McKelvie called for MSPs of all parties to support her anti-Trident motion earlier this month - as of October 17, just three out of the 38 Labour MSPs backed it, Neil Findlay, Malcolm Chisholm and Elaine Smith.

Neil Findlay, the defeated Scottish leadership contender and Corbyn’s closest ally in the Scottish parliament, issued a statement backing a proposed anti-Trident motion at the conference. Scottish members of the Unite are also said to favour scrapping Trident, despite support for renewing the system from the union’s general secretary, Len McCluskey.

Writing in the conference bulletin of the Labour Campaign for Socialism, Mr Findlay warned his party: "If we shy away from discussing this issue, we can be sure that others won't be slow in pointing out our reluctance to do so."

An early day motion calling for the cancellation of the replacement of Trident tabled in July by Corbyn has attracted 61 signatures by the middle of October, of which 15 were Labour MPs.

The remaining signatories included 40 out of the 55 SNP MPs, two Plaid Cymru MPs, two Social Democratic and Labour Party Mps, one Green Party MP and one Liberal Democrat. No Tory MPs committed pen to paper.

Mr Murray said that "of course" Labour could have different policies on renewal north and south of the border.

When asked if the party in Scotland could adopt its own stance, he told the Good Morning Scotland programme: "Of course it can, it can have a different position on anything it wants. That's the whole process of autonomy."

He was then asked what would happen if Labour won the 2020 election, but with Scottish Labour opposing the UK policy and campaigning against the renewal of Trident.

Mr Murray said: "That wouldn't be the case because we would stand on a UK Labour manifesto and the Scottish Labour Party would have views on that.

"If the Scottish Labour Party have a different view on any type of policy, they're entitled to have that view."

Mr Murray, who is opposed to renewing Trident, argued: "People are intelligent enough to understand that the party in terms of their UK manifesto would be on that particular backdrop, but individual MPs have always had different views on various issues.

"I'm not alone in campaigning against the renewal of Trident in the general election. So, it's not new for people to have different positions."