Alex Salmond has called for the Israeli diplomat caught discussing a plan to "take down" a UK Government minister to be deported.

Footage taken by an undercover reporter showed Shai Masot, an Israeli embassy official, discussing a plan to discredit foreign office minister Sir Alan Duncan.

The conversation took place in a London restaurant in October and the video also shows the diplomat call foreign secretary Boris Johnson "an idiot."

Mr Masot can be heard telling a civil servant that Duncan, who has criticised Israel in the past, was causing "a lot of problems."

The Foreign Office has said the Israeli embassy has apologised for the incident and it considered the matter "closed."

Salmond, the SNP's foreign affairs spokesman, said Mr Masot should be immediately stripped of his diplomatic status.

The embassy has previously said his employment will end "shortly".

The SNP MP said: "It is completely unacceptable for the UK Government to declare the matter closed - Shai Masot must go and go immediately before the end of his tenure at the Israeli Embassy.

"Boris Johnson must right now revoke Mr Masot's diplomatic status and remove him from the country as would most certainly have happened had the circumstances been reversed. Perhaps then the Israeli Government representatives will regard the Foreign Secretary as less of a fool.

"I would expect the UK Government to fully investigate this matter so that we can be confident our elected officials are free to carry out their jobs to the best of their ability and without fear of having their reputation smeared by Embassy officials who do not agree with their views."

The video, taken by a reporter with Al Jazeera, also shows Mr Masot mention Conservative MP Crispin Blunt.

Blunt, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, said the conversation was "outrageous" and called for an investigation to take place.

Maria Strizzolo, the civil servant who Mr Masot was speaking to in the video, has now left her position at the Skills Funding Agency.

A Foreign Office spokesman said earlier: "The Israeli ambassador has apologised and is clear these comments do not reflect the views of the embassy or government of Israel. The UK has a strong relationship with Israel and we consider the matter closed."