Brits split on whether £600k cost of sending refugees to Rwanda is worth it

Brits are evenly divided over whether it’s worth spending £600,000 to send each cross-Channel asylum seeker to Rwanda.

An exclusive Sunday Mirror poll shows four in ten voters reckon it is worth the £120million for 200 migrants to be transported to the central African country to have their asylum applications processed.

But the same proportion say it is not worth the cash even if it acts as a deterrent to dangerous small boat crossings.

The scheme was proposed by former Home Secretary Priti Patel and is enthusiastically supported by her successor Suella Bravernan.

But it has never got off the ground because of legal challenges and a reluctance by airlines to take part.

And £600,000 would be enough to keep an asylum seeker in a hotel for more than 12 years.

Voters told pollsters Redfield & Wilton that Labour ’s Yvette Cooper would make a better Home Secretary than Ms Braverman by 30% to 20%.

They also believe shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves would do a better job than Jeremy Hunt now wrestling with plugging a £50billion black hole in the UK’s finances.

Rishi Sunak is preferred as PM over Labour leader Keir Starmer by just four points.

Only one in five Brits disapprove of the way we have opened our homes to Ukrainian refugees.

But 52% think they should return to Ukraine when the war ends.

More than six in ten believe the monarchy should continue following the Queen’s death while one in three have a more favourable view of Prince Charles since he became king.

He is beaten by son Prince William and the Princess of Wales with favourability ratings of 69%.

• Redfield & Wilton Strategies interviewed 1,500 voters online on 2 – 3 November.