Rishi Sunak‘s government has ploughed £290m into its Rwanda deportation plan despite not a single flight having taken off. The prime minister signed off on a £100m payment to the east African nation this year, on top of the £140m already spent on the policy. And the Home Office has pencilled in another £50m payment next year as the plan hangs in the balance, having been ruled unlawful by the Supreme Court. The Home Office’s top civil servant revealed the figures overnight, having refused to do so just days ago, saying it was in the “public interest”. And the revelation sparked a furious reaction, with Labour accusing the PM of wasting “an astronomical £290m of taxpayers’ money”. Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said: “This is just incredible. The Tories' have wasted an astronomical £290 million of taxpayers' money on a failing scheme which hasn't sent a single asylum seeker to Rwanda. "How many more blank cheques will Rishi Sunak write before the Tories come clean about this scheme being a total farce?” She added that the scheme has now cost “basically £100m for every home secretary sent to Rwanda”, visited by Priti Patel, Suella Braverman and James Cleverly. There are...