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said the full expense of the plan to send asylum seekers who arrive to the UK in small boats to Rwanda was not fully disclosed to parliament.Cooper continued: “Those costs include £290m payments to Rwanda , chartering flights that never took off, detaining hundreds of people and then releasing them, and paying for more 1,000 civil servants to work on the scheme.
The cabinet minister added: “Over the six years of the migration and economic development partnership forecast, the previous government had planned to spend over £10bn of taxpayers money on the scheme - they did not tell parliament that.”withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights.” Starmer continued: “That is not consistent with the values with that blood bond, so we won’t withdraw – not now, not ever.
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