SCOTTISH Labour will today try to get its election campaign back on track after a weekend of chaos sparked by Kezia Dugdale's comments on independence.

The leader will seek to bring the focus of the campaign back to tax when she unveils a new analysis showing people on low incomes would be better off under her party's plans.

Yesterday she remained on the back foot after saying it was "not inconceivable" she could vote for independence in order to keep Scotland in the UK.

Her comments, in an interview published on Friday, were quickly followed by a clarification stressing Scottish Labour would oppose a second referendum.

However, Alex Salmond said her remarks strengthened the case for holding a second independence referendum if Scotland votes to remain in the EU but Britain as a whole votes to leave on June 23.

Interviewed on Sky TV, he said such circumstances "would occasion another referendum," adding: "If even the Labour leader in Scotland is prepared to accept that point, I think we can take it as a very, very strong argument indeed."

Ruth Davidson, the Scots Tory leader, seized on comments by Tom Harris, the former Labour MP and a leader of the Scottish Vote Leave Brexit campaign, who Labour's support for the Union "looks like it is being watered down".

Ms Davidson said: "With less than five weeks to go until the election, Kezia Dugdale's position on Scotland's place in the UK has never been weaker.

"It's no wonder civil war is breaking out in the party - this is an issue that is of utmost importance and the Labour leader can't seem to make up her mind."

Ms Dugdale will visit Leith today, hoping to draw a line under the issue.

The party last night issued a series of examples showing low-paid households would gain as a result of Labour's plans for income tax combined with its proposed property value tax, which would replace council tax.

The figures showed a lone parent, on

£14,000, living in a Band A property in Dundee would be £204 a year better off.

By contrast a couple with a combined income of £270,000, in a Band G house in Glasgow, would be £974 worse off.

She said: "Labour’s plans are fair, reasonable and the only way to stop cuts to our public services.

"Under our plans for the Scottish income tax and our new fair property tax, the wealthiest in Scotland will pay more to protect our public services and to reverse Tory cuts.

"That means that those on the lowest incomes, under £20,000, will not pay a penny more than they do today and hundreds of thousands of families will be better off."

The SNP will target teenage voters with a new party political broadcast.

Campaign director John Swinney said: "For the first time 16 and 17 year olds in Scotland will have the chance to choose their government. "That is a hugely exciting prospect. "This election is an opportunity for our young people to shape not just their own future, but Scotland’s future."

Ms Davidson will focus on training during a visit to a Glasgow factory, when she will highlight pledges to reverse cuts to colleges, increase the number of apprenticeships and create a network of 'skills academies'.

"We need to redress the balance between vocational and academic education in this country," she will say.

Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie will visit a treetop obstacle course at Glentress Forest, near Peebles.

He will use the visit to pledge action to tackle climate change.

Patrick Harvie, the Scottish Greens leader, will call for more support for asylum seekers.