Robert Muldoon
Robert Muldoon was prime Minister of the New Zealand during the Springbok Tour in 1981. He believed firmly that politics and sport should not mix and therefore that the Tour should go ahead despite international pressure. He was a strong pro-tour supporter. He refused to intervene when the NZRFU extended an invitation to the Sringbok rugby Team even though he had signed the Gleneagles Agreement that was meant to discourage countries in the Commonwealth from having sporting contact with South Africa until they ended their policy of Apartheid. By allowing the Springboks to come to New Zealand he was accused of breaking the 1977 Gleneagles Agreement.