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Gov. Phil Murphy returned home to New Jersey Tuesday — after a five-day economic mission trip to the United Kingdom that was filled with non-stop meetings. Time for a break? Hardly.

“All who shall hereafter live in freedom will be here reminded that to these men and their comrades, we owe a debt to be paid with grateful remembrance of their sacrifice and with the high resolve that the cause for which they died shall live eternally.”

The line from Gov. Phil Murphy about Tim Crouch at the roundtable event was easy: “If you listen to him, you’d think he was representing Cambridge, but he’s actually representing the state of New Jersey,” he said.

The United Kingdom became the 10th destination for a Choose New Jersey-sponsored economic mission trip under Gov. Phil Murphy. They never get old — and no two places are the same.

Brigid Evans has been in more than her fair share of meetings with elected officials. She knows the possibilities. Some are programmed — some are off-the-cuff. Some are funny — some are serious. Few are like New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy.

ary of the governor’s economic mission trip to the United Kingdom were not misprints.
If anything, there wasn’t enough time built in to get around the city that always is at a standstill. Just ask the delegates on the Choose New Jersey-sponsored trip that found it took 90 minutes to go fewer than 10 miles from the airport to the hotel.

Scott Aves didn’t know that a handful of New Jersey counties – including Essex, Sussex and Gloucester – got their names from the United Kingdom. Or that there are numerous towns in New Jersey connected to the UK, including Evesham, Manchester, Southampton and Weymouth.