The first minister confirmed she would stay in post until somebody else takes over and remain as an MSP until at least the next Holyrood election.
Former US president Donald Trump has bid “good riddance” to Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon following her shock resignation announcement.
Referring to Ms Sturgeon as a “failed woke extremist”, he also accused the outgoing leader of the Scottish National Party of fighting him over his golf courses in Scotland.
Criticising her government’s controversial gender reforms which have sparked a major row in recent weeks, Mr Trump insisted that the people of Scotland would be “much better off” without Ms Sturgeon in the top job.
“Good riddance to failed woke extremist Nicola Sturgeon of Scotland!” he said in a statement.
“This crazed leftist symbolises everything wrong with identity politics.
“Sturgeon thought it was OK to put a biological man in a women’s prison, and if that wasn’t bad enough, Sturgeon fought for a ‘Gender Recognition Reform Bill’ that would have allowed 16-year-old children to change their gender without medical advice.
