James Cleverly spent £165,000 on flight to Rwanda to sign deportation deal

The disclosure about James Cleverly comes weeks after the government was criticised for planning to spend £1.8m on each of the first 300 asylum seekers it plans to send to Rwanda. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

James Cleverly, the home secretary, spent £165,561 chartering a private jet for a one-day round trip to Rwanda to sign Rishi Sunak’s deportation deal in Kigali.

The trip took place on 4 December to sign the new deal with the east African state after the supreme court’s finding that Rwanda was an “unsafe country”.