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UK paid Rwanda extra £100mn for asylum scheme

Payment made in April was revealed to MPs in Home Office letter
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is set to spend the weekend attempting to rally Conservative MPs behind ‘emergency’ legislation to save his Rwanda policy ahead of a vote on Tuesday

The UK government has paid Rwanda another £100mn as part of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s troubled plan to send asylum seekers to the east African nation, taking the total cost so far to £240mn.

The additional payment, made in April but revealed in a Home Office letter to MPs on Thursday evening, is a further sign of how much financial and political capital Sunak has invested in the controversial scheme.

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