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Daniel Keane

No10 defends Rwanda migrant policy after claim it could cost 100k per asylum seeker

Prime Minister Boris Johnson defended the Government’s plans

(Picture: PA Wire)

Downing Street has defended controversial plans to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda amid claims that the policy could cost up to £100,000 per person.

A spokesman for the Prime Minister said it was the Government’s responsibility to “find a solution” to migrants crossing the Channel, which they claimed puts “lives at risk and only benefits criminal gangs”.

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