An SNP MP has been slammed after tweeting that "murdering babies wasn't on the Nazi manifesto".
Peter Grant, who has represented Glenrothes since 2015, made the remark in response to a post from veteran broadcaster Andrew Neil.
The Paisley-born TV host shared a message yesterday from the Auschwitz Memorial, which commemorated a Jewish toddler from Hungary who was murdered by the Nazis before his first birthday in 1944.
Neil, who launched the GB News station last month, commented: "As accusations of fascism are bandied about today like confetti by the ignorant, ludicrously devaluing the word of any meaning, a reminder of what real fascism can do. And of its unconscionable evil."
In a now deleted response, Grant wrote: "You're more right than you care to admit. Murdering babies wasn't on the Tory manifesto.
"Not until they'd been in power several years & stoked up fear & hatred against innocent citizens.
"Then, and only then, did they show their true colours."
Tory MSP Stephen Kerr said: "This tweet was absolutely abhorrent and beyond the pale. For an elected SNP MP to post this was hugely offensive as well as being completely inaccurate.
“It beggars belief that any elected representative would think this sort of language was appropriate as part of a political debate. It has absolutely no place in civil discourse.
“This was a warped tweet and gave a worrying insight into what this SNP MP believes. Peter Grant must urgently apologise and reflect on this shameful behaviour.”
Grant is a former leader of Fife Council and is the SNP's former Brexit spokesman at Westminster.
In 2018 he apologised after posting a tweet that appeared to mock Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg over his religious beliefs.
Grant said he “intended no offence” with his attempted joke about the arch Brexiteer, who is known to be a devout Catholic.
The MP had posted: “Jacob is a Catholic Brexiteer. He Fridays he only sells out fishermen.”
The Record has asked the SNP for comment.
