Home secretary’s aide says Rwanda policy is ‘crap’, in leaked recording

James Sunderland has been a parliamentary private secretary to James Cleverly and worked for his predecessor, Suella Braverman. Photograph: David Woolfall/London Portrait

An aide to the home secretary and Conservative parliamentary candidate said the government’s Rwanda scheme is “crap”, in a leaked recording.

James Sunderland, who is running for re-election in Bracknell, was recorded criticising the policy at a Young Conservatives event in April.