Rwanda scheme has already cost taxpayers £700 million, Cooper reveals

The previous Tory government’s plan to send some asylum seekers to Kigali saw just four volunteers fly to the east African nation, Ms Cooper said.

The Rwanda deportation scheme cost Britain £700 million despite only four volunteers being sent to Kigali, Yvette Cooper has said, branding the policy the “most shocking waste of taxpayer money I have ever seen”.