Boris Johnson has been accused of unveiling plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda as a "massive distraction" from his Partygate woes.
Senior Tory MP Tobias Ellwood blasted the Prime Minister for trying to shift the focus onto a scheme to fly people seeking sanctuary in the UK more than 4,000 miles for "processing".
The crisis-hit Prime Minister set out the move in a speech in Kent today, where he boasted he was “taking back control of illegal immigration” after Brexit by sending Channel boat passengers to Rwanda.
