If 300 people are sent to Rwanda it would cost £2 million per person

The Labour Party has said that the Government plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda will cost £2 million per person.

In a video posted on social media site X, the party listed a series of things that it said “would cost you, the British taxpayer, less than the £2 million it’s going to cost you to send one asylum seeker to Rwanda. Do you think that’s a good use of your money?”

Labour’s shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock has said: “It will cost the UK Government £570m to send 300 people to Rwanda. That’s almost £2m per person.”