Yvette Cooper on UK sending asylum seekers to Rwanda
Labour has criticised the governments plans to send asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda.
Yvette Cooper told MPs the plan to was a distraction from the lockdown parties in Downing Street and would cost taxpayers more per application than processing them in the UK.
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