THE rift between Labour leaderships at Westminster and Holyrood has widened with Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Scottish Secretary complaining that Scottish leader Kezia Dugdale is "blanking" him.

Dave Anderson is due to spend two days in Scotland this week but will not be meeting Dugdale, who has called on Corbyn to quit, or Scottish Labour's only MP Ian Murray, who walked out of the shadow cabinet in protest at the leadership.

In an email to an activist discussing the visit, seen by the Sunday Herald, Anderson said: "Well the party has only itself to blame for blanking me mate and they should have shown the initiative that you did."

He suggested that Dugdale and Murray had failed to show any interest in his visit to Scotland as a shadow cabinet minister. After his appointment last month he said he would seek a meeting with Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale "as soon as possible".

Anderson, who is a Labour member of the Scottish Affairs Committee at Westminster, was appointed to the portfolio that Murray resigned from and was also made shadow Northern Ireland Secretary.

He is due to meet oil workers in Aberdeen during the visit and will also see Scottish Labour's health spokesman Anas Sarwar in Glasgow. He also suggested in his email that senior figures in the party in Scotland had failed to show the "initiative" to arrange a meeting with him in the same way as the Dundee Labour Trade Union Coordinating Group he is due to address on Wednesday.

The MP for Blaydon previously launched a scathing attack on the conduct and attitude of the Scottish Labour leadership after he was appointed by Corbyn to take over over from Murray.

He expressed frustration about the party under Dugdale, who appointed Edinburgh South MP Murray as her Westminster spokesman, despite his refusal to serve under Corbyn. Murray's appointment to Dugdale's frontbench team is viewed by Corbyn supporters as undermining the status of Anderson, who is UK Labour's lead on Scotland.

Last night, when contacted, Anderson, confirmed he was not meeting Dugdale and Murray. but said that was "more to do with disjointed holiday arrangements than anything else".

Dugdale, who spent two weeks in July on a leadership programme in the United States, paid for by the American Government, followed by a further four days at the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia, has not arranged to meet him. Indeed the two politicians have yet to meet.

Anderson said that his visit, covering a number of issues - but not the national Labour leadership - came about as a result of talks with the Scottish Trades Union Congress and local politicians.

When asked about the email by the Sunday Herald he said: "We are united in our belief that a strong Labour Party is the best remedy to the problems facing the people of Scotland and the rest of the UK. I intend to play my full part with comrades in the leadership and wider movement to reconnect with the Scottish people in order to ensure that they weather the storm that Tory austerity and SNP arrogance have piled on them. And we will do that in unity no matter who tries to pull us apart."

However, a Labour source said that Anderson was "persona non grata" among high ranking Scottish Labour figures such as Dugdale and Murray, who was one of the first MPs to quit Corbyn's shadow cabinet during a mass-walk out in protest at his leadership.

The source said: "He's talking about the leaders of the Labour Party in Scotland as Kezia Dugdale has effectively backed the plotters against Corbyn and Ian Murray was one of the first MPs who jumped ship when all the shadow cabinet resignations took place.

"The attitude from the leadership towards Dave has been pretty awful as he's persona non grata among them."

Dugdale has said that it was "very difficult" to envisage Corbyn continuing in his current role after 172 of his MPs voted against him in a motion of no confidence and almost his entire shadow cabinet resigned.

Speaking, in June after the Parliamentary Labour Party passed the vote of No confidence, she said “Jeremy should reflect on the the outcome of today’s PLP vote - but I would not carry on in similar circumstances. If I had lost the support of 80 per cent of my MSPs I could not do my job.”

Lord Foulkes, chairman of the Scottish Parliamentary Labour Party, had also said that no Scottish politicians would fill the shadow Scottish secretary position vacated by Murray while Corbyn is leader.

However, a senior Scottish Labour source said that party resources in Scotland had been available to Anderson in his new role and that he had had full access policy staff and frontbenchers.

The source added that Murray had "gone out of his way to be as helpful as possible" to Anderson in areas such as the preparation for Scotland Office questions at Westminster.

A Scottish Labour spokesperson said: "Kezia Dugdale, Ian Murray and the rest of the Scottish Labour team will continue to work constructively with Dave Anderson."