Boris Johnson has been branded a 'tinpot dictator' by SNP MP Ian Blackford over his plans to introduce voter ID at elections in the United Kingdom.
The SNP's Westminster leader took aim at the Tory Prime Minster over the Electoral Integrity Bill which he said deals with a problem that doesn't exist.
In response to Blackford, Johnson said he remembers vote rigging in the London borough of Tower Hamlets which is why he wants people to have to require to show identification when casting their ballot in elections.
Opposition parties as well as number of Tory MPs are against the bill which Blackford described as "Trumpian".
Tory minister say it will help "protect democracy", while Labour said the plans would lock millions of people out of democracy.
At Prime Minister's Questions today, Blackford said: "This week the Tory government introduced this so called Electoral Integrity Bill.
"In reality the bill is designed to do anything but increase the integrity of our elections. It is the solution in desperate search of a problem that simply does not exist.
"What the bill will do is to impose for the first time Trumpian voter ID laws in the UK.
"The Electoral Reform Society says it could lead to voter disenfranchisement on an industrial scale.
"Disenfranchising people from working class communities, BAME communities, and others already marginalised in society, creating barriers to vote. Prime Minister, why is this Tory government trying to rob people of the democratic right to vote?"
In response, Johnson said: "What we're trying to do is to protect the democratic right for people to have a one person, one vote system.
"I have personal experience, I remember vividly what used to go on in Tower Hamlets and I think it is important that we move to some sort of some sort of voter ID.
"Plenty of other countries have it, and I think it's eminently sensible and I think people will be reassured that their votes matter and that's what this bill is about."
In reply to the PM, Blackford said: "Goodness gracious Prime Minister, come on there 34 allegations of impersonation in 2019.
"This is a problem that does not exist. It is a British Prime Minister seeking to make it harder to vote because it's easier to get reelected if the government can choose the voters rather than letting the voters choose the government.
"Three and a half million people in the United Kingdom do not have any form of photo ID, 11 million people do not have a passport or driver's licence. These millions of people will be directly impacted by seeing their right to vote curtailed.
"It's not just the opposition saying this, members of the Prime Minister 's own party have called his plans an illogical and illiberal solution to a non existent problem. Will the Prime Minister withdraw these vote rigging proposals immediately or he will continue down the path of being a tinpot dictator?"
