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New Zealand’s top diplomat in the United Kingdom was fired after making comments about President Trump in London earlier this week.
New Zealand’s high commissioner to the U.K., Phil Goff, was terminated from his role after questioning Trump’s knowledge of history during an event hosted by an international affairs think tank, Chatham House, on Tuesday.
“The Ministry is in discussion with High Commissioner Goff about his return to New Zealand. We have no further comment at this time,” New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade wrote in an emailed statement to The Hill on Thursday.
During the Tuesday event, Goff said he was “re-reading Churchill’s speech to the House of Commons in 1938 after the Munich agreement,” referring to the ex-British wartime leader Winston Churchill, according to multiple outlets .
“He turned to [former Prime Minister Neville] Chamberlain and said: ‘You had the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor yet you will have war’,” Goff said, refering to Churchill’s 1938 speech.
In this speech, Churchill slammed Britain’s decision to sign the 1938 Munich Agreement with Adolf Hitler, giving the Nazi leader permission to annex part of Czechoslovakia.
“President Trump has restored the bust of Churchill to the Oval Office, but do you think he really understands history,” Goff stated on Tuesday.
Goff has served as the country’s high commissioner to the U.K. since early 2023.
New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters told reporters after Goff’s remarks that he would have fired the top envoy if he mentioned something similar about other nations.
“If he [Goff] had made that comment about Germany, France, Tonga, or Samoa, I’d have been forced to act,” Peters said, according to CNN.
“It’s seriously regrettable and one of the most difficult things one has had to do in his whole career. I’ve worked with Phil Goff, I’ve known him for a long time,” the foreign minister said, adding that “when you are in that position, you represent the government and the policies of the day; you’re not able to free think; you are the face of New Zealand.”
The decision received some pushback from New Zealand’s ex-top official.
“This looks like a very thin excuse for sacking a highly respected former #NZ Foreign Minister from his post as High Commissioner to the UK,” former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark wrote in a Wednesday post on X.
“I have been at Munich Security Conference recently where many draw parallels between Munich 1938 & US actions now,” she added.
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