In full: Yvette Cooper says £700m spent on Rwanda scheme ‘shocking waste of taxpayer’s money’
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Published 2024-07-22
Yvette Cooper told the Commons that she had informed the Rwandan Government that the British Government would be ending the Migration and Economic Development Partnership deal, which would have seen asylum seekers sent to the central African country.
She added that the previous government had planned to spend more than £10 billion on the scheme.
Ms Cooper said: “I can report it has already cost the British taxpayer £700 million in order to send just four volunteers.
“Those costs include £290 million payments to Rwanda, chartering flights that never took off, detaining hundreds of people and then releasing them and paying for more than 1000 civil servants to work on the scheme.”
She added: “A scheme to send four people. It is the most shocking waste of taxpayers’ money I have ever seen.”
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All Comments (13)
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The Daily Telegraph Outdated toilet paper that belongs in the Eighteenth century
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700 MILLION Pounds 💷 WHAT AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE 💯
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Politicians and morticians have ways of making money off bad situations.
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Cooper to Botswana stat.
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Labour need to go!
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Is he talking about the same joe biden that cant say one sentence
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What’s a shocking waste of space is gobby Yvette Cooper, after all her bleating over the past year her comments on the trouble in Leeds last week and now Rwanda are nothing more than word salad. Shameful
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Why do people compare their own finances with that of the UK ? Or any free market economy 🤔 it can't be done , it's just not comparable 😜 People moaning that a gov has spent £700 million on this or that 🙄 yes it seems a lot but.... the UK generates £65 billion a day 🤣 every day ! That's £44 million every minute, tick tock around the clock. £2.3'000000000000 every year. So calm down dear 🙄 🇬🇧🇬🇧
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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer leader of Labour Party showing strong leadership home and abroad
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She destroyed the Tories in this address. The utterly shameful Conservative waste of taxpayer money laid out for all to see. Yet here in the Torygraph comments section, we still have the pathetic sycophants defending the last 14 years of failure and ruin.
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Wtf did he say about biden 😂😂😂 he's destroyed the country 😂😂😂
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ALL POLITICIANS ARE THE SAME JUST NEW FACES PEOPLE DON'T WAKE UP
