Next UK government faces payouts to dozens of Rwanda flight detainees

The next government will face dozens of costly payouts to asylum seekers detained for deportation to Rwanda, even if the deal falls apart after the elections.

Legal actions are being lodged by asylum seekers who say the Home Office locked them up unlawfully before the threatened first flight to the east African country. Home Office sources indicated they did not accept these claims.

More than 80 of those detained have now been granted bail, but dozens remain locked up even though there is no…