‘Cloak and dagger tactics’: Tories paid Rwanda an extra £100m for asylum deal

Ministers criticised after civil servant tells MPs payment was made in April after 140m had already been sent

UK ministers have been accused of using cloak and dagger" tactics after a leading civil servant revealed in a letter that they had paid Rwanda a further 100m to send asylum seekers there.

Sir Matthew Rycroft, the Home Office's top civil servant, told MPs the payment was made in April after 140m had already been sent. He added that a further payment of 50m was expected next year.