MPs Kenny MacAskill (East Lothian) and Neil Hanvey (Kircoldie and Cowdenbeath) were told to “move out immediately” by Speaker of the House Lindsay Hoyle in furious scenes at the start of the session.
It comes as cries for a referendum on Scottish independence were heard in the chamber.
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Mr MacAskill could be heard trying to raise a point of order and appeared to say “we need a referendum on the prime minister” before being silenced by other MPs.
Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle as he dumps Alba Party pair Kenny Macaskill (East Lothian) and Neil Hanvey (Kircaldy and Cowdenbeath) at the start of Prime Minister’s Questions
Mr. Macaskill refused to sit down and continued to speak, prompting Sir Lindsay to act.
Mr Hanvey then rose to his feet and could not be heard over the heckling of Tory MPs before he was subsequently told to leave the chamber.
The spokesman said: “I will not tolerate this kind of behaviour. If you want to get out, get out now.
“If you stand up again, I will order you out. Decide.”
Alba MPs Kenny MacAskill and Neil Hanvey were ushered out of the House of Commons ahead of PMQs (Photo: John Devlin).
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Mr MacAskill rose to his feet again before Mr Hanvey also stood and began to speak, but he could not be heard over the heckling of Tory MPs.
Sir Lindsay then named the pair, meaning they were removed from the House.
He said: “Neil Hanvey, I now order you and Kenny MacAskill to leave this room. Sergeant, deal with them.
“Get out now, the sergeant will escort them.”
A press release from the Alba party behind the scenes said: “Kenny MacAskill and Neil Hanvey today said ‘Scotland’s voice will be heard’ in the face of a discredited Prime Minister’s continued veto of a Section 30 order.”
In an interview after he was thrown out, Kenny MacAskill, the former justice secretary, told STV news: “This is a prime minister who is distorting parliamentary democracy, who is denying Scotland’s legitimate right to a referendum and at the same time over half of our people, and Scotland is an energy-rich, fuel-poor country.
“It is time Scotland had the right to determine its own future, rather than having a future determined by a handful of Tory MPs and then a handful of Tory members, none of whom were elected in Scotland.”
During PMQs, when several SNP MPs asked whether they should allow Scotland to hold a second independence referendum, Mr Johnson said the SNP should look to “educational figures” instead of constantly raising the “constitutional question”.
Ian Blackford said: “Scotland literally cannot afford the cost of living with Westminster,” adding: “Doesn’t the Prime Minister understand that the people of Scotland don’t just want to get rid of him, they want to get rid of the whole a rotten Westminster system?’
The SNP Westminster leader also told outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson that the Tory leadership was a “toxic race to the right” and the next Tory leader would “make Genghis Khan look like a moderate”.
The Prime Minister said: “Thanks to our union we were able to deliver the leave scheme that helped the whole country and make the huge transfers that boost the whole UK economy.
“The last thing the people of Scotland need now is more constitutional wrangling when we need to fix the economy.”
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