Nicola Sturgeon calls on Mark McDonald to resign as MSP

Mark McDonald was suspended by the SNP in November following allegations by three women.Nicola Sturgeon has urged her former childcare minister Mark McDonald to stand down as an MSP after he resigned from her party over inappropriate behaviour but refused to quit Holyrood.McDonald announced on Thursday he had left the Scottish National party after three women accused him of unwanted and inappropriate behaviour, but he insisted he would stay on an independent MSP for Aberdeen Donside.