New Zealand Fires High Commissioner to UK for Trump Comments

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New Zealand will replace Phil Goff as High Commissioner to the UK following comments he made regarding US President Donald Trump.

The comments are “deeply disappointing,” a spokesman for Foreign Minister Winston Peters said in an emailed statement Thursday in Wellington. “They do not represent the views of the New Zealand government and make his position as High Commissioner to London untenable.”