Trump stripped of his role as a Scottish business ambassador by Nicola Sturgeon after she says 'obnoxious and offensive' presidential candidate is 'no longer fit' for the post

.First Minister withdraws his membership of GlobalScot business network 

• .US political hopeful had been involved since being invited to join in 2006
• .Network of business leaders, entrepreneurs and executives set up in 2001
• .Mr Trump's mother was Scottish immigrant and he owns golf course there
• .See more on Donald Trump's campaign at www.dailymail.co.uk/trump 

By MARK DUELL FOR MAILONLINE

Donald Trump has been stripped of his status as a business ambassador for Scotland after he called for Muslims to be barred from entering the US.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon withdrew the Republican presidential candidate’s membership of the GlobalScot business network yesterday after he sparked outrage with his comments.

The Scottish Government said his remarks ‘have shown that he is no longer fit to be a business ambassador for Scotland’ and that his membership had been ‘withdrawn with immediate effect’.

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Scottish links: Former first minister Alex Salmond (left) poses with Donald Trump (right) at a fashion show in New York in April 2006. Mr Trump has been stripped of his status as a business ambassador for Scotland

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Republican presidential candidate: Mr Trump with another former Scottish first minister, Jack McConnell, at Trump Tower in New York in October 2005. He had been a member of the GlobalScot network since 2006

Mr Trump had been a member since being invited to join in 2006. Scottish Enterprise set up the network of business leaders, entrepreneurs and executives with a connection to Scotland in 2001.

Miss Sturgeon, 45, previously described 69-year-old Mr Trump's comments as ‘obnoxious and offensive’ and said they ‘do not represent the mainstream views of people across America’.

Mr Trump, whose mother was a Scottish immigrant from the Isle of Lewis, owns a luxury golf resort in Aberdeenshire but has courted controversy by trying to block wind farms being built in view of it.

Also yesterday, Mr Trump was stripped of his honorary doctorate of business administration from Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen - five years after being awarded it in October 2010.

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Making the decision: First Minister Nicola Sturgeon (left) withdrew Mr Trump's membership of GlobalScot. Mr Trump is pictured (right) receiving an honorary degree from Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen

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Acting: Mr Trump has now been stripped of his honorary doctorate of business administration from Robert Gordon University (pictured) in Aberdeen, five years after he was awarded it in October 2010

A spokesman for the university said: ‘In 2010, Robert Gordon University awarded an honorary DBA to Mr Donald Trump in recognition of his achievements as an entrepreneur and businessman.

CONDEMNATION OF TRUMP IN UK

More than 360,000 people have backed a petition on the Parliament website for Mr Trump to be banned from the UK as British politicians condemned his remarks.

The property tycoon provoked widespread anger and ridicule after demanding a block on Muslims entering the US and claiming parts of London were ‘so radicalised’ that police were ‘afraid for their own lives’.

Downing Street has made clear that David Cameron sees the comments as ‘divisive, unhelpful and quite simply wrong’.

Chancellor George Osborne branded them ‘nonsense’, but dismissed calls for him to be excluded from the UK, saying his views should instead be challenged in debate.

And London Mayor Boris Johnson said the remarks made Mr Trump unfit for office.

‘In the course of the current US election campaign, Mr Trump has made a number of statements that are wholly incompatible with the ethos and values of the university.

‘The university has therefore decided to revoke its award of the honorary degree.’

More than 70,000 people signed a petition calling for Mr Trump's degree to be revoked after his comments sparked outrage.

The online petition was set up by Suzanne Kelly, a freelance investigative journalist and satirist based in Aberdeen, on campaigning website 38 Degrees.

It states: ‘We feel that Donald Trump's unrepentant, persistent verbal attacks on various groups of people based on nationality, religion, race and physical abilities are a huge detriment to RGU.

‘Hate speech must not have a place in academia, in politics or on the world stage.’

The award was made before the appointment of the university’s current principal Professor Ferdinand von Prondzynski.