Sending UK asylum seekers to Rwanda will save money, claims minister

Claim about long-term benefits disputed by MP Andrew Mitchell who describes reported cost of 30,000 a person as eye-watering'

Britain will save money in the longer term" by sending some asylum seekers to Rwanda, a minister has said after the reported cost of about 30,000 a person was described as eye-watering".

Defending the decision to fly out many of those who arrive on the Kent coast to a country more than 4,000 miles away, the Home Office minister Tom Pursglove said it would crush" the business model of people smugglers.