The costs of the programme remain uncertain, but The Times reported that each migrant sent to Rwanda is expected to set British taxpayers back between £20,000 and £30,000.

"Good on Adil Ray, these bigot MPs can't be allowed to get away with their horrendous dog whistle policy announcements. Especially as it's all to do with getting Johnson out of the crosshairs."

“This is a shamefully cruel way to treat people who have come to the UK to seek protection, fleeing persecution or conflict.”

"I don’t think I’ve ever felt so bleak to my bones," wrote Armando Iannucci.

The Government “has broken virtually every promise it’s made to our region”.

The comedian hit out at Priti Patel and the UK government over their decision to send asylum seekers to another country to have their cases processed.

“All of which shows me, personally, and us all, politically, that the culture wars rage and continue to rage and that they consume anyone who dares to challenge the narrow, monocultural base on which the current national curriculum, with all its assumptions on powerful knowledge is based."

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"This is a disgusting thing to say. Anyway, her disgraceful sociopathy aside, I have to say she really shone in the Jimmy Savile doc where she gave him the keys to a hospital."