James Cleverly spent £165k on private jet to Rwanda to sign deal

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HOME Secretary James Cleverly spent £165,000 flying out to Rwanda on a private jet to sign Rishi Sunak’s deportation deal, a fresh document has…

HOME Secretary James Cleverly spent £165,000 flying out to Rwanda on a private jet to sign Rishi Sunak’s deportation deal, a fresh document has revealed.

Cleverly was the third home secretary to travel to Rwanda to sign an agreement after Suella Braverman and Priti Patel.The cost of charting a private jet was disclosed in a transparency document on Thursday and comes after the Government was slated for planning to spend £1.8m on each of the first 300 asylum seekers it plans to send to Rwanda.

A spokesperson for the Rwandan government said at the time it had a “proven record” of offering a home to refugees, and the new treaty would “re-emphasise, in a binding manner, already existing commitments” on asylum seeker protection. “Will he take this opportunity to point out that this house was well prepared to pass the legislation back for consideration in the House of“And that this House has just been doing its job, which is asking the Commons to think again, and is not responsible for delaying the legislation?”

 

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