Unions say civil servants could stage mass walkouts after home secretary overruled their concerns
Britain has promisedan initial £120m as part of an “economic transformation and integration fund”, but the UK will be paying for operational costs too. A set amount of funding will be allocated for each migrant, expected to cost between £20,000 and £30,000 a person for the flight to Rwanda, and the first three months of accommodation there.The immigration minister, Tom Pursglove, said on Friday he believed the move would save Britain money in the longer term.
The Public and Commercial Services union said that “to attempt to claim this is anything other than utterly inhumane is sheer hypocrisy”. The shadow prisons minister, Ellie Reeves, told Times Radio: “The UNHCR [UN refugee agency] have come out really, really strongly condemning the government’s proposals, as have many organisations, and it seems the government’s own civil servants have expressed huge misgivings about the plans, which seem to be completely misguided.”
Despite the backlash, Patel believes other countries will follow the UK’s asylum proposals. She said Denmark could be among those to reproduce the UK’s “blueprint” system.
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