JEREMY CORBYN ruled out holding a second referendum on Scottish independence in the first term of a Labour government during his tour of Scotland yesterday.

The Labour leader said this would be the case even if the SNP wins the majority of Scotland’s 59 seats in next month’s general election.

His aides later said that his position could change if the SNP wins in the 2021 Scottish parliamentary elections.

Mr Corbyn was on a two-day tour of Scotland to campaign ahead of the December 12 general election.

He hopes to regain seats lost to the SNP landslide in the 2015 election — when Labour was under the leadership of Ed Miliband.

Although Labour made some recovery in the 2017 vote, the SNP still had 35 of the 59 Scottish constituencies in the last Parliament.

Mr Corbyn said that his priority as PM would be “investment in Scotland” of more than £70 billion rather than another independence referendum.

He tried to dissuade voters from backing the SNP by stressing only Labour or the Tories could form a UK government.

In response, the SNP accused Mr Corbyn of taking the “undemocratic position of simply ignoring the Scottish people.”

Mr Corbyn was targeted by heckling church minister Richard Cameron as he entered a community centre with Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard to give his speech.

He was heckled by the reverend when he was showing off a tartan scarf given by volunteer organisation Who Cares? Scotland.

Scotstoun parish church’s Mr Cameron shouted: “I thought you’d be wearing your Islamic jihad scarf.”

There is no such thing as an “Islamic jihad scarf” – but reports have suggested that Mr Cameron could have been referring to a Palestinian keffiyeh.

The minister was later rebuked by the Church of Scotland.