Kezia Dugdale won the largest fight of her political career and almost immediately announced plans to take on Jeremy Corbyn again.

The Scottish Labour leader saw off attempts by allies of Mr Corbyn to delay her appointment of a member to Labour's powerful ruling body.

In the end the reform was overwhelmingly backed by the party’s annual conference in Liverpool.

Labour sources said that Ms Dugdale had defeated seven separate attempts to sink part of her flagship austerity policies since the weekend.

But within minutes Ms Dugdale announced that she would take up the seat on the National Executive Committee herself.

The decision sets up the prospect of further showdowns with Mr Corbyn, who is also a member.

The newly created Scottish and Welsh representatives mean Mr Corbyn’s supporters will be outnumbered on the NEC.

But Ms Dugdale faced accusations of “gerrymandered” votes and a system “rigged” against Mr Corbyn.

Amid heated scenes in the conference hall, some delegates argued that the position should be decided by a vote of the members.

One member, David Flack, added that he was “appalled at the gerrymandering and the lack of democracy that’s gone on in our party”.

A Labour source said Ms Dugdale came to Liverpool "and stood steadfast ... and won again and again and then again."

"No-one else has emerged from this conference with so many victories under their belt," he added.

Welsh Labour leader and First Minister Carwyn Jones said: “The package of reforms passed today is a significant step forward – not just for Welsh Labour – but the whole Labour movement in the UK.

"Our party structures need to keep pace with devolution".

He said that the relationship with "the wider UK Labour family ... must always be a relationship built on mutual respect".

Separately, Labour's sole Scottish MP Ian Murray called on Mr Corbyn to immediately rule out any post—election deal with the SNP – to avoid a re-run of 2015 election

Mr Murray also called for the repatriation of powers like fishing from the EU to Holyrood.

At the weekend Mr Murray accused his party leader of being "all over the place' on the idea of a coalition with the SNP.

Within days the shadow defence secretary Clive Lewis repeated his call for a 'progressive alliance' with parties like the SNP and the Greens.

The issue has sparked fury within Scottish Labour.

Some say that Scottish voters are being given the message that they can vote SNP and still get a Labour government.

Earlier this year shadow Scottish secretary Dave Anderson said that the party should consider a deal with the SNP if it was the only way to lock the Conservatives out of power.

Mr Murray said: “Until the leadership of the Labour party realise that talk of a progressive alliance doesn’t benefit us, then we are going to be in real difficulty.

“We have got to be incredibly strong in ruling all these progressive alliances out earlier."

He said no-one asked him if the party would create an =alliance with the Conservatives "Why? Because we fundamentally disagree with them, actually it’s the same with the SNP".