Rwanda plan 'would cut £8m-a-day bill for hotels'

MINISTERS have been warned to end the "madness" after the bill for housing migrants in hotels hit £8million a day.

- Michael Knowles

The Home Office, headed by Suella Braverman, is now spending around £3billion every year on accommodating asylum seekers, a shock report revealed yesterday.

The cost has rocketed by another third since ministers admitted it was £6million a day in April.

Tory MPs warned the spiralling cost is "unsustainable" and urged ministers to lay the groundwork for the first deportation flight to Rwanda after a Supreme Court ruling, expected in November.

Alp Mehmet, head of campaign group Migration Watch UK, said: "If the Government doesn't get a grip of this utter madness quickly, it will only get worse. While the poor old put-upon taxpayer foots the bill. This is so unfair."