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Mr Tsvangirai, head of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), told reporters in the capital, Harare, that he would not play Mugabe's "game".

The announcement came after thousands of ruling party militants blockaded the site of the opposition party's main campaign rally.

Mr Hague said: "The MDC's withdrawal from the election is wholly understandable in the face of the rigging, violence, and murder perpetrated by the Mugabe regime.

"It is now clear beyond doubt that Zimbabwe is suffering under one of the world's vilest and most despotic tyrannies."

He called for a swift response from the international community.

He said the Zanu-PF government should no longer be recognised.

And he said a UN Commission of Inquiry should be set up to look into the "grotesque abuses of human rights, with a view to future action by the International Criminal Court".

"This is a criminal government, and should now be treated as such," he said.

"While these measures will hit ordinary Zimbabweans too, they might, if implemented swiftly succeed where all else has failed to force Mugabe's regime out of power."