Phil Goff's position is now "untenable", according to Winston Peters' office. Photo / Michael Craig
Phil Goff’s position as High Commissioner to the United Kingdom is now “untenable” Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters' office says, off the back of “deeply disappointing” comments the former Auckland Mayor made regarding Donald Trump.
According to reported comments, Goff made comments critical of Trump at an event in London this week.
“I was re-reading Churchill’s speech to the House of Commons in 1938 after the Munich Agreement, and he turned to Chamberlain, he said, ‘You had the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour, yet you will have war’,” Goff said, according to a report from The Post.
“President Trump has restored the bust of Churchill to the Oval Office. But do you think he really understands history?”
A statement from a spokesperson for Peters said: “Phil Goff’s comments are deeply disappointing.”