NGOs call Home Office ‘unethical’ over £15m offer to help resettle deportees

More than 30 groups say they will not be complicit' in department's divisive anti-migrant agenda'

The Home Office has been accused of cynical" and unethical" behaviour after offering millions of pounds to refugee charities to help settle newly deported people.

A government contract put out to tender earlier this month offers to pay 15m over three years to NGOs who work with people being removed from the UK to 11 countries, including Ethiopia, Iraq and Zimbabwe.