The comment on Trump that lost New Zealand’s high commissioner his job

Phil Goff has been removed from his role after publicly questioning US President Donald Trump’s grasp of history at a public Chatham House event last week. Referring to Winston Churchill’s 1938 speech after the Munich Agreement, which allowed Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia, he asked the Finnish foreign affairs minister Elina Valtonen, if she thought the US president ‘really understands history’. New Zealand’s foreign minister Winston Peters said it was “seriously regrettable” that he had been forced to act over Goff’s remarks and would have done so had he made them about any other nation’s leader