Kemi Badenoch Undermines Central 'Deterrent' Point Of Rwanda Policy With Just 1 Sentence

Home secretary James Cleverly and Rwandan Foreign Minister Vincent Biruta sign a new deal on a reworked asylum scheme in Kigali, Rwanda, last December.

Kemi Badenoch appeared to undermine the whole point of the government’s Rwanda plan after saying she knows someone “having a very lovely gap year” there.

The business secretary was responding to the news that ministers have paid a failed asylum seeker £3,000 to move to the east African country.

However, the arrangement is completely...