A pro-Union group founded by a Holocaust denier is to hold a 'Brexit Celebration' event in George Square.

A Force For Good is calling on Scots to join together in front of the City Chambers at 10.30pm on Friday evening.

It comes as the UK will officially leave the European Union 30 minutes later at 11pm.

The group, set up to oppose Scottish independence, is run by Alistair McConnachie, who was expelled from UKIP in 2001 after making comments about the Holocaust in an email to party members.

He claimed that gas chambers were not used by Nazis to murder millions of Jews during World War Two, adding that any eyewitness accounts are "false or highly exaggerated". 

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The email reads: "I don't accept that gas chambers were used to execute Jews for the simple fact there is no direct physical evidence to show that such gas chambers ever existed.

"There are no photographs or films of execution gas chambers.

"Alleged eyewitness accounts are revealed as false or highly exaggerated.”

In an interview with our sister title The Herald in 2018, he said he "stands by" what he said. 

On Friday, Alistair posted a video calling on "like-minded" Scots to join him in George Square for the event to celebrate that "Britain is finally going to be independent".

He opened the clip, which has been viewed around 15,000 times on the A Force For Good's Facebook page, Alistair can be seen singing "Rule Britainnia, get Brexit done. We voted Leave and Leave won."

He then went on to say: "On the 31st January at 11pm Britain is coming out of the EU, we're coming out, we're leaving and we're going to celebrate that fact.

"Join us in George Square, bring your friends, your flags and your banners, come along and meet like-minded people who are so glad that Britain is finally going to be independent."

He added that Brexit will "cook the SNP goose to a crisp and they know that - and that's why they hate Brexit and why we love it". 

We previously told how the Scottish Greens are also using the day for a rally.

The party is planning to mark "Brexit Day" with an event at the Barras Art and Design Centre to launch a new campaign for Scottish independence.