Reports PM privately thinks Rwanda plan won’t work are why costs must be published, Yvette Cooper says – as it happened

Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary Photograph: Amer Ghazzal/REX/Shutterstock

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Early evening summary

• Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, has said that recent reports saying Rishi Sunak privately does not support the Rwanda policy (see 11.27am) show why the government should publish confidential document about its full costs. She made the argument as she opened a debate on a Labour motion that would force the government to publish those figures. During her speech Cooper also rubbished the policy. She told MPs:

In the end, the only deterrence it appears the prime minister actually believes in is deterring his backbenchers from getting rid of him. It’s weak, weak, weak. And yet the taxpayer is paying the price.

It is a totally farcical situation: a prime minister who doesn’t think it is a deterrent; a home secretary who thinks it’s batshit, a former home secretary [Suella Braverman] who says it won’t work; a former immigration minister [Robert Jenrick] who says it doesn’t do the job; and everyone who thinks what we’ve got is a sham, and it’s an incredibly expensive one, with the taxpayer being conned.

So, if ministers disagree with everything that I just said to describe their plans, what is there to hide? Tell us the facts and show us where all of that is wrong.

• David Cameron, the foreign secretary, has admitted he is “worried” that Israel may have taken action in Gaza that may be in breach of international law. He made the admission during a hearing with the Commons foreign affairs committee where initially he repeatedly refused to say whether Foreign Office lawyers had advised him that Israel had broken international law. (See 3.26pm.)

• Akshata Murty, the millionaire businesswoman and investor married to the UK prime minister, Rishi Sunak, has donated her shares in the childcare company Koru Kids to charity, following concerns about whether she stood to benefit from government policies.

• The former Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells has said she will hand back her CBE over the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of post office staff. Vennells made the announcement as Alex Chalk, the justice secretary, told MPs that he is considering bringing a bill to parliament to quash the Post Office Horizon convictions that remain unsafe. (See 12.37pm.)

• A row has broken out over the government’s role in Channel 4 management appointments after it blocked a minority ethnic woman from joining the broadcaster’s board.

Yvette Cooper in the Commons debate this afternoon. Photograph: Parliament TV

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Pursglove confirms £240m has already been spent on the Rwanda scheme so far. He says future sums will be set out in annual Home Office reports.

Cooper intervenes, and asks why the government has not published the expected costs, as it had done with the deal with France.

Pursglove again says the figures will be published annually in the usual way.

Updated at 6.02pm GMT