Donald Trump’s Diplomacy Chief Tells UK: ‘Britain Will Be Great Again Because Her People Are’

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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.

“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.

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“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.

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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.”

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