Phil Goff, who is New Zealand's High Commissioner to the U.K., made the comments at an event held by the international affairs think tank Chatham House in London on Tuesday.

New Zealand’s High Commissioner to the UK, Phil Goff, has lost his diplomatic post after making remarks about former U.S. President Donald Trump at a Chatham House event in London.

In the fiery spat between Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, it was a sentence that went largely unnoticed, but said quite a

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday ... Commonwealth countries — was attending a public event at Chatham House, a London-based think tank, on Tuesday.

Let me tell you, Putin went through a hell of a lot with me,” Trump said on February 28 in the unprecedented and very public Oval Office clash. “He went through a phony witch hunt,” Trump added, referring to an investigation during his first term into whether his 2016 election campaign colluded with Moscow.

French President Emmanuel Macron is due to meet Donald Trump on Monday, the first one-on-one meeting ... Sebastien Maillard from the Chatham House think tank says. "Macron is trying to touch on what could be more emotion than on pure rational arguments ...

President Trump has restored the bust of Churchill to the Oval Office. But do you think he really understands history?” the New Zealand diplomat asked.

Phil Goff, who was serving as high commissioner to the UK, seemingly tried to compare Winston Churchill's handling of Nazi Germany to Trump's approach to Russia. (Credit: Chatham House)

Phil Goff compared Trump's efforts to end the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war and the 1938 Munich Agreement, which allowed Adolf Hitler's annexation of Czechoslovakia.

New Zealand’s high commissioner to the UK has been fired after questioning US President Donald Trump’s grasp of history at an event in London

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand’s most senior envoy to the United Kingdom has lost his job over remarks he made about U.S. President Donald ... think tank Chatham House in London on ...

Auckland says Phil Goff's position was made 'untenable' by his remarks at an event in London this week. View on euronews