Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says it's "farcical" that the cost of the government's scheme to send migrants to Rwanda has more than doubled to £290 million. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 is just farcical. I mean, we've already got more Home Secretaries than asylum seekers
00:04 sent to Rwanda. And now it turns out they've been making secret payments from the British
00:09 taxpayer to Rwanda that bring the cost up to nearly 300 million pounds without anyone
00:16 being sent. They've hidden these costs. This is a chaotic system where they're still also
00:23 fighting each other within the Tory party. And actually, what we should be doing is using
00:28 this money to go after the criminal smuggler gangs to work with France to stop dangerous
00:34 boat crossings. They're just all gimmicks. They're never getting a grip. This is the
00:37 third new Tory law on channel crossings in just less than two years. The first one they
00:45 had to partially revoke because it was making things worse. The second one they haven't
00:50 actually enacted because they know it won't work. And now they're bringing forward a third
00:55 one that even the former Home Secretary says won't work, the immigration minister actually