Labour’s Yvette Cooper says the plan to stop small boat crossings, one of Rishi Sunak’s five key pledges, is “completely unravelling”.
“Ministers were forced to admit this week that it will cost £169,000 to send each person to Rwanda on top of the £140m of taxpayers’ money they have already spent,” she says.
“The Rwanda scheme is unworkable, unethical and extortionate, a costly and damaging distraction from the urgent action the government should be taking.”