First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said that she would meet outspoken new US president-elect Donald Trump, a year after she stripped him of his ‘Global Scot’ status.

The SNP leader said that she hoped that she could develop a “relationship based on values” with the controversial billionaire.

But she urged him to row back on the some of the pledges he made during his widely criticised race for the White House.

“He’s going to be the President of America. There’s no point in pretending otherwise,” she added, in an interview with the Big Issue in which she also said that she hoped 2017 would be "slightly calmer than 2016”.

Ms Sturgeon also revealed that she has never met “The Donald”.

Her predecessor as First Minister Alex Salmond met Mr Trump on a number of occasions.

Ms Sturgeon said: “Obviously he spends time in Scotland, he has Scottish ancestry, and if he comes – as I’m sure he will – he’s the President of America and if the opportunity is there, I’d meet him.”

The First Minister, who backed his opponent Hillary Clinton, said it was no secret that she would rather that Mr Trump had not been elected.

"But he has, and so I’m going to respect that but I’m not going to abandon my own values, just as I’m sure he’s not going to abandon the things he believes in."

Later, she added: “Hopefully we can have a relationship based on values, although I do hope he does abandon some of the values that he campaigned on."

She also joked that she could someday run an SNP candidate in England.

“I’m tempted… There are a lot [of people] in England – a lot who contact me – who feel completely disenfranchised that there is nobody speaking up for them," she said.

But she diplomatically declined to say whether she would prefer to shove Prime Minister Theresa May or German Chancellor Angela Merkel into a tank of goo, in the interview with Scottish actor Alan Cumming.

Ms Sturgeon has condemned Mr Trump's remarks about women, Muslims and Mexicans.

At the height of the controversy she stripped the former The Apprentice star of his role as a "Global Scot" ambassador.

Interviewed earlier this year by comedy star Gary Tank Commander, Ms Sturgeon was asked, if Mr Trump was elected, would she “deal with him or dingy him?”

She replied: “I think America will dingy him before I do.”

She held her first conversation with him last Friday, when the president-elect called her for a "brief introductory conversation”.

At the weekend Ms Sturgeon defended her decision to take a phone call from Mr Trump, saying that she was "happy" to speak to him.

But she also warned the real estate tycoon that his controversial Aberdeenshire golf development has to comply with Scottish environmental laws.

Mr Trump, whose mother was from Stornoway, own golf courses in Ayrshire and Aberdeenshire, and flew into Scotland at the time of the Brexit vote in the summer.

He will be sworn in on 20 January.