In full: Yvette Cooper says £700m spent on Rwanda scheme ‘shocking waste of taxpayer’s money’
Vložit
- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- The Rwanda scheme has already cost £700 million, it has emerged, as the Home Secretary called the policy “the most shocking waste of taxpayer’s money I have ever seen”.
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.”
Read your updates here: www.telegraph....
#politics #labour #government
Subscribe to The Telegraph with our special offer: just £1 for 3 months. Start your free trial now:
www.telegraph....
Get the latest headlines: www.telegraph....
Telegraph.co.uk and / telegraphtv are websites of The Telegraph, the UK's best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.
How much has illegal migrantion cost the country ?
if it costed that much why did labor scrap the plan and waste tax payers money
700 MILLION Pounds 💷 WHAT AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE 💯
It will cost us more when labour open the borders and let them all in .
Cost 600 million not 700 million .The only reason why the UK lost that money was cooper cancelled it before it even started 😂😂
exactly
hahahha Rwandan paid bot lol
What people don't ask questions about why Priti Patel picked Rwanda?
Is it because her family who immigrated to UK from Uganda who have relatives with connection in Rawanda running companies facilitating the whole deal?
No
700 million wasted on a Rwanda scheme by the tories so labour decides to throw a further 84milion towards Africa yet we still have far too many of our own on the streets or below the poverty line, absolutely shameless and disgusting maybe work on sorting out our own country first before trying to help others at the detriment of our own
The Daily Telegraph
Outdated toilet paper that belongs in the Eighteenth century
Womp womp, cry about it, leftie
Please don’t keep people who don’t assimilate with your country’s culture, abide laws of the land or respect its people.
Cooper brexit treator, truly awful woman
Starmer out
Small change compared to Gordon Brown selling 401 tonnes of the United Kingdom’s gold reserves, 56% of the United Kingdom’s gold reserves, for 3.5 billion pounds , now worth over 21 billion pounds.
Politicians and morticians have ways of making money off bad situations.
We the people who pay your wages want a new Referendom on whether we should go back into the EU
I just ask the question - in this so serious and influential role - why does he read from a script and make light of it?
All the politicians in the house of commons use a script to help their speeches, nothing wrong with it
I wish I were shocked… That Serco got the contract for 109 asylum hotels That Serco's CEO is the brother of a former Tory MP That his partner is a Tory Party donor That Serco's former top spin doctor was the Tory Minister for Health.
doesnt matter when its not their money same as usual just look at the PPE contracts given to their fat cat friends
Labour need to go!
Better than the Tories or the brain dead lunatics and racists from reform
Good luck with that
And replace them with who?... the Tories?😂😂😂
Cleverley just told @GMB when asked why small boats crossing numbers grew under Tories he said just because Rwanda was called a deterrent it doesn't mean it will deter people 😂 By christ we're well rid of him and his party
Protestant Bishops tell the priests to rebuke the devil worshipping freemasons. Redcoats were law 'enforcement' until 1828 on British soil. Until belgian freemasons chief of pre parliament.
Cooper to Botswana stat.
Urgency of Challenge to a nation like Britain of islamists and security of British people is vital and was vital. It is unfortunate that same people reelected the Labor Govt. and challenge continues with no sollution except that British people are inconvenienced, challenged on road and civilised life and public order challenged by same illegals and voters of Islamists who have removed British Flags from all Taxis plying on London Roads by its Myore and setting police vans on fire in Irland and attacked and occupied police station in wales and situation continues and ruling party Labot sitting in comforts of homes.
2:08 my lowt🎉😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊
The EX home secretary James cleverly has just said on TV that the figure is 300 million not 700 million
That’s the same James Cleverly who called the Rwanda scam ‘bat poo crazy’ and then shifted his position 180 degrees.
Yeah we should trust his figures!
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer leader of Labour Party showing strong leadership home and abroad
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.
I guess just as wasteful as the money the Labour Government spent on 2 illegal wars in Afganistan and Iraq...everyone has short memories lol
@@John-mu5kiThis never makes sense this argument. It’s 2024 not 2003?
@@John-mu5kiI think I learned about age 1 or 2 that "two wrongs don't make a right"... so whatever the last Labour Government did wrong, doesn't mean we can't criticise the last 14 years of Tory incompetence.
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
Starmer the downfall of Britain 🇬🇧
Another fu**ing Tory what a surprise.
Is he talking about the same joe biden that cant say one sentence
One of those "users" again.
ALL POLITICIANS ARE THE SAME
JUST NEW FACES
PEOPLE DON'T WAKE UP