THE Tories were yesterday forced to defend paying thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money to a failed asylum seeker after he agreed to move to Rwanda.
Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch claimed the Government should be pleased about the unnamed man's decision to accept £3000, despite accusations of a financial waste.
She said: "I do think that we should be trumpeting it because one of the big arguments about this scheme was Rwanda wasn't a safe country, and actually people are volunteering to go there."
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