Failed Rwanda deportation scheme cost £700m, says Yvette Cooper
Failed Rwanda deportation scheme cost £700m, says Yvette Cooper
Home secretary describes Tory policy that Labour has axed as ‘the biggest waste of taxpayer money I have ever seen’
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.
They will waste money on anything besides solving the issue...
How much housing would 700m built? If it is affordable? 2k?
Building new houses is pointless: whoever wants to buy a house to live in will be outbid by the "professional landlords" as usual. The only solution is to outlaw renting and watch all the parasites crying while they sell houses for pennies.
Flood the zone with houses.
U.S. American here. Does the UK have a particular glut of Rwandan refugees/immigrants? If so, why?
No, we don’t. We have a trickle of illegal immigrants and until this month a batshit plan to fly the ones that got caught to Rwanda if they tried to claim asylum.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Yvette Cooper described the policy, which was introduced two-and-a-half years ago and sought to send UK asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing, as “the biggest waste of taxpayer money I have ever seen”.
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.
Under the government’s plans, new offences will be created to allow enforcement agencies to treat people smugglers like terrorists and to penalise social media companies that fail to remove advertisements for small boat crossings.
In her statement in the Commons, Cooper blasted the Conservative government’s “unworkable” Illegal Migration Act, which was introduced in March 2023 and cost the taxpayer billions by putting asylum seekers who arrived in the UK in a state of limbo.
James Cleverly, the shadow home secretary, accused Cooper of “hyperbole and made-up numbers” and said Labour had “scrapped the Rwanda partnership on ideological grounds”.
Richard Foord, the Liberal Democrat defence spokesperson, called for the creation of a resettlement scheme to create a safe and legal route and disincentivise asylum seekers from travelling to the UK before they have made an application.
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