THE Tories’ Rwanda deportation policy will cost billions of pounds in public funds — four times more than processing asylum-seeker claims in Britain, new analysis shows.

The staggering costs of PM Rishi Sunak’s flagship policy are revealed in a new report by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) today.

It came as Transport Secretary Mark Harper wouldn’t guarantee that migrant flights to the east African country would take off before the general election, saying only that was the government’s “intention.”