Jeremy Corbyn will embark on a five-day tour of marginal Scottish seats, taking in a series of music gigs to capitalise on his profile among young voters after his reception at Glastonbury.
The Labour leader remains “on an election footing” for another general election as early as October and hopes to overturn the SNP’s wafer-thin majority in 18 key marginals.
The party faithful in Glasgow will arrange two gigs in his honour in the city in late August, promising a mixture of culture, music and politics. Mr Corbyn will also attend another concert in the city, details of which are expected to be announced soon.
His tour will finish with an appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe, where he will tell the comedian Susan Morrison about his journey from defiant backbencher to “prime minister in waiting”.
Mr Corbyn hopes to attract more young voters to his party after thousands of music fans chanted his name at the Glastonbury festival, and tempt them away from Scottish nationalism.
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A YouGov poll in June put Labour one point ahead of the SNP among young voters in Scotland, where the resurgent party increased its Westminster seats from one to seven at the general election.
Other events in his five-day tour — which will take in Glasgow South West, Glasgow East, Airdrie and Shotts, Lanark and Hamilton East, Motherwell and Wishaw, Inverclyde and Dunfermline and West Fife — will target adult and elderly voters.
Labour said it was “incredibly confident” of taking these seats from the SNP at the next election as they require swings of less than 1 per cent.
Mr Corbyn said: “Under Labour, Scotland will have a government that works for the many not the few. Labour remains on an election footing as a government-in-waiting, ready to end failed austerity and ensure that Scotland has the resources it needs to provide the public services its people deserve.
Kezia Dugdale, the Scottish Labour leader, said that more members were signing up to the party every day.