The Scottish leg of a concert tour supporting Jeremy Corbyn to become the next prime minister has been hit by disappointing ticket sales.

Organisers of the #JC4PM tour, which is travelling across the UK and is due in Edinburgh on Wednesday evening, are struggling to fill the stalls section of the 2,000-seater Festival Theatre in the Scottish capital.

The show will see a crowd of Corbyn supporters enjoy speakers such as Scottish Labour's pro-Corbyn MSP Neil Findlay alongside comedians such as Mark Steel and musical acts including Charlotte Church.

One of the tour's organisers told BuzzFeed News that tickets, which are priced at £20 or £50 with an autographed poster, have not sold as well as he had initially hoped because of the political dominance of the Scottish National Party.

"The tickets have not sold very well at all, and I can't really say if people will buy a lot on the night," said organiser Crispin Flintoff. "We're hoping to fill the stalls but it's a massive theatre. We did this all spontaneously and we didn't know what the demand would be and we have booked one of the largest theatres in Scotland.

"It's not going to be full like the others were."