The UK Government's proposal to list the proportion of foreign workers employed by individual companies is reminiscent of the "rise of the Nazis", an SNP MSP has said.

Christina McKelvie made the comparison on stage at her party's conference in a debate on Brexit.

The Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse MSP, who convenes Holyrood's equalities and human rights committee, condemned the home secretary Amber Rudd.

Rudd revealed the proposal list foreign workers at the Conservative conference last week.

McKelvie told conference delegates: "We have a Tory leader who questions the right of EU nationals in the form of Christian Allard to take part in local democracy or national democracy.

"Who calls Scottish people 'thieves and vandals' and smiles sweetly when she says it?

"Now we have lists of foreign workers, reminiscent of the rise of Nazism in the 1930s."

Rudd was widely condemned following her speech to the Conservative conference.

On Sunday, education minister Justine Greening announced on ITV's Peston on Sunday programme that companies would not be "named and shamed" as originally outlined.

Greening said: "This is not data that will be published. There will be absolutely no naming and shaming.

"This is about informing policy so that we understand which areas and parts of the country there are skills shortages, evidenced by the fact that employers are not taking local workers as much as they might do.

"It then enables us really to tailor policy in those areas so we can respond to that."

McKelvie described the Conservative conference as being "deeply disturbing" and including "poisonous rhetoric".

She said: "The Tory party conference last week was a disgusting, disgraceful and deeply disturbing insight into what may face us in this land if we become the bystanders and do not speak out against discrimination.

"They came for the human rights lawyers and we did nothing. Well, we will not do nothing. The poisonous rhetoric has no place in our land.

"We heard Tory minister after Tory minister tell us foreign students were not welcome. Foreign doctors could only stay long enough to train our homegrown doctors and then they could get lost.

"We heard nothing to set the minds at rest from EU nationals who have given much to our lives, communities, culture, arts, research, innovation and tax take."

The Scottish Conservatives called McKelvie's remarks "uninformed and stupid".

A spokesman said: "After Nicola Sturgeon ramped up her rhetoric in a bid to play to the SNP gallery, it's no surprise to see a junior MSP take this a step further.

"These were uninformed and stupid remarks.

"When elected representatives say things like this, it's no wonder the SNP can't get their cowardly cybernats under control."

On Thursday, the First Minister said she would back companies "that refused to comply with any request to publish details of foreign workers".

McKelvie has been an SNP MSP since 2007.