Cooper said the £700m cost included £290m payments to Rwanda, chartering flights that never took off, detaining people and then releasing them, and paying more than 1,000 civil servants to work on the policy.
I'd be interested in a full breakdown of where the money went, because I wouldn't be surprised to find Tory chums creaming off millions.
If we could get a chunk of that back along with the PPE rip-offs then that'd help the bottom line.