UK Spent £700 Million to Send 4 Volunteers to Rwanda: Home Secretary

Britain spent £700 million on the Rwanda deportation scheme despite only sending four people, voluntarily, to the east African nation, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said on Monday. The Rwanda deportation scheme cost Britain £700 million despite only four volunteers being sent to Kigali, Yvette Cooper said. She branded the policy the “most shocking waste of taxpayer money I have ever seen” when she addressed the House of Commons, accusing the last Tory government of creating “asylum Hotel California” where immigrants could arrive as they pleased, but then never left. She claimed the Conservatives had planned to spend more than £10 billion over six years on the Migration and Economic Development Partnership (MEDP) and warned that large numbers of small boat journeys in the English Channel are likely to persist over the summer....