Senior Trump official’s claims about UK free speech arrests rejected by No 10

Sarah B Rogers speech at conference in London included far-right memes and conspiracy theories about Da Yookay'

Claims by a senior official in the Trump administration that British police were making thousands of freedom of speech" arrests have been rejected by the UK government.

Sarah B Rogers, who has become the public face of the US state department's hostility to European liberal democracies, was accused by MPs of echoing far-right memes and conspiracy theories during a speech at an international rightwing conference in London. She also referenced the death of the British teenager Henry Nowak and a recent incident in which a child was thrown into a zoo's crocodile pit.