The Independent – £700m to send just four people to Rwanda
The home secretary has revealed that Rishi Sunak’s government had already spent £700m on the failed Rwanda scheme, The Independent writes. The Rwanda deportation scheme cost Britain £700 million despite only four volunteers being sent to Kigali, Yvette Cooper has said, branding the policy the “most shocking waste of taxpayer money I have ever seen”. Elsewhere, a large image of Kamala Harris makes the splash as Democrats get behind the VP and she vows she’ll beat Trump.
Yvette Cooper reveals Tories’ £700m Rwanda spend and brands asylum backlog ‘Hotel California’
Home secretary Yvette Cooper has revealed that Rishi Sunak’s government has already spent £700m on the plan to remove asylum seekers to Rwanda and had planned to spend a further £10bn.
In a stinging speech in the House of Commons, Ms Cooper said the Tory government has left an asylum backlog like “Hotel California” because it stopped processing thousands of cases.
Ms Cooper revealed that four migrants had been paid to volunteer to go to the east African country as she branded the policy the “most shocking waste of taxpayer money I have ever seen”.
The amount already spent on the Rwanda plan includes a £290m payment to Rwanda, as well as “chartering flights that never took off, detaining hundreds of people and then releasing them, and paying for more than a thousand civil servants to work on the scheme”, she said on Monday.
Kamala Harris secures enough delegates to win Democratic nomination ahead of first campaign stop
US Vice President Kamala Harris has already secured support from enough Democratic delegates to become the party’s nominee for president in place of Joe Biden, according to a new survey.
An Associated Press study of delegates shows that Harris has the backing of 2,538 delegates, well beyond the 1,976 needed to secure the nomination at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in August.
“Tonight, I am proud to have secured the broad support needed to become our party’s nominee, and as a daughter of California, I am proud that my home state’s delegation helped put our campaign over the top,” she said in a statement.
Today’s news summary – Paper Talk
If you are someone who reads every perspective of a story, here is a news summary of all of today’s front pages from today’s newspapers; summarised in a 2-minute read
Editorial 23 July 2024.
Tuesday’s front pages, for the second day, are heavily dominated by US politics. Many broadsheets turn their focus to Vice President Kamala Harris as millions of dollars in donations to the Democrats have started to pour in, and Democratic heavyweights throw their support behind the VP.
The UK tabloids are less focused on US politics and look a little closer to home with various domestic stories featured as the leads.
The back pages are focused on Premier League gossip and the upcoming Paris Olympics.