Call for inquiry into how ID decision made
He said: "I truly am tired of this whole dishonest, partial debate and we need clarity over what happened, who was in charge and who dropped the ball when the decisions were being nodded through."
Smith said he was not interested in allocating blame, but wanted assurance that never again could such a thorny issue as EID come into operation without it having been fully discussed in this country.
Smith said: "Scotland was demonstrably part of all those discussions, yet nobody seems to have raised the massive practical difficulties with the legislation until it was effectively too late."