New Zealand’s most senior envoy to the United Kingdom has lost his job over remarks he made about US President Donald Trump at an event in London this week, New Zealand‘s foreign minister said Thursday.
Phil Goff, who is New Zealand’s High Commissioner to the UK, commented at an event held by the international affairs think tank Chatham House in London on Tuesday.
Goff asked a question from the audience of the guest speaker, Finland’s Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen, in which he said he had been re-reading a famous speech by former British wartime leader Winston Churchill from 1938, when Churchill was a lawmaker in the government of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.
Phil Goff lost his job after making “disappointing” remarks about President Trump during
Join the conversation!
Please share your thoughts about this article below. We value your opinions, and would love to see you add to the discussion!