Donald Trump’s diplomacy chief tells UK: 'Britain will be great again because her people are'

Donald Trump’s diplomacy chief has claimed “Britain will be great again because her people already are" while addressing the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) Conference in London today.

Sarah B Rogers, the US Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, also praised the UK’s history, traditions and national character, opening up on her family's own journey from Yorkshire to America.

In her speech, Ms Rogers said that Britain and America remain bound together by a shared inheritance of language, law, institutions and political traditions.

“Not all Americans are blood descendants of Englishmen, but in a deep way, we are descendants of England.

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“Our language, our civic associational norms, our laws and our intuitions about greatness – about what has made our civilisation great and about what it means to be great again – they come from you.

“Britain created the rights and freedoms it bequeathed to America through the greatness of her people alone.

“We share them with you. And we've got plenty to lend. If stocks run low,” she told delegates.

The US official assured attendees that Britain could replicate the political revolution launched by Mr Trump.

“If you organise and if you plan and if you vote, you can do all that we have done and more.

“Britain will be great again because her people already are,” she promised.

In her speech, Ms Rogers compared the journey of early American settlers to the UK’s historic Brexit vote.

“Ten years ago, Brits made the same choice the pilgrims did,” she said, adding: “They left Europe in a bid to remain English.”

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The senior State Department official traced her family history to the Pilgrim Fathers.

She revealed that her ancestor, William Bradford of Yorkshire, sailed aboard the Mayflower in 1620 and later became governor of Plymouth Colony.

Ms Rogers noted that the pilgrims initially settled in the Netherlands after fleeing religious persecution in England, but ultimately chose America because they feared losing their cultural identity.

“Bradford wrote that he feared that his children would degenerate culturally, taking on the language and lifeways of continental Europe,” she said.

However, Ms Rogers warned that the promises made to those who chose to leave the EU had not been delivered.

She said: “The Brits voting for Brexit thought this would free them from a fake consensus that seemed to strangle the post-war West and dictate decline.

“A fake consensus that you could never turn back the boats. A fake consensus that our good lives represented ill-got gains to be redistributed through open borders. A fake consensus that generating electricity or building anything from a train to a house was presumptively forbidden.

“Overthrowing that consensus is what Britain voted for. But it's not what Britain got.

“If you take your cues from your social media feed, what Britain got instead was a meme dystopia called the ‘Yookay.’”

“Some people look at Britain's thousands of speech arrests per year and see only tyranny,” she said.

However, the staunch Trump ally assured that the British national character would prevail, citing George Orwell's wartime essay, The English People.

She said: “I see something else. I see Orwell's common Englishmen still with us today, indomitable and unbowed.”

Ms Rogers also predicted that similar political changes would take hold in the UK as they had in the US.

“When Americans voted for change in 2016, the same year you voted for Brexit, a delusional establishment recoiled and coped," Ms Rogers added.

“The American people knew better was possible, so they kept choosing it.

“That is what is possible when you reject helplessness and reject decline," the US official declared.

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