BENEDICT ARNOLD ...

 ... sorry, I meant Stuart Nash...

... not this guy:

Benedict Arnold was an American-born British military officer who served during the American Revolutionary War. He fought with distinction for the American Continental Army and rose to the rank of major general before defecting to the British in 1780. General George Washington had given him his fullest trust and had placed him in command of West Point in New York. Arnold was planning to surrender the fort to British forces, but the plot was discovered in September 1780, whereupon he fled to the British lines. In the later part of the war, Arnold was commissioned as a brigadier general in the British Army and placed in command of the American Legion. He led British forces in battle against the army which he had once commanded, and his name became synonymous with treason and betrayal in the United States.

Stuart Nash is a New Zealand politician (great-grandson of Sir Walter Nash, 27th Prime Minister of New Zealand in the Second Labour Government from 1957 to 1960). He was a member of the House of Representatives for Labour from 2008 to 2011, and was re-elected in the 2014 election. In October 2017 Nash entered the Labour Cabinet with portfolios of Police, Revenue, Small Business and Fisheries. In the second term of government Nash was handed the Economic Development, Tourism, Forestry, and Small Business portfolios. In 2023 he was sacked from Cabinet for breaching confidentiality by emailing donors about policy discussions and Nash confirmed that he would not be contesting the 2023 election. Nash has now declared his allegiance to NZ First, telling the party’s members Labour has “abandoned” working people. On Saturday he was a guest speaker at NZ First’s annual convention, rejecting the Labour party and declaring his support for Peters’ economic nationalist party, which is in coalition Government with the National Party.

Yes, I can see why I confused these two people.