Inside Rwanda’s white elephant that’s cost British taxpayers 220m: The ‘luxury’ Kigali hotel with football pitch, pool table, cinema room – set in beautiful grounds where staff are so bored waiting for UK asylum seekers they dust indoor palm trees [Video]

Staff at a Rwanda hostel earmarked since 2022 for asylum seekers are so bored waiting, they are dusting leaves from indoor plans and picking weeds from the lawn – to the tune of more £220 million of taxpayers’ money.

The Hope Hostel is one of several properties selected by the Rwandan government to house illegal immigrants who will be flown from the UK in July after PM Rishi Sunak vowed ‘nothing will stand in our way’.

But with dozens human rights lawyers waiting in the wings to fight claims and a Labour government odd on to take power – and who have already vowed to scrap the scheme – taxpayers will be furious at what looks increasingly like a costly white elephant.

Earlier his week MailOnline was the first British news organisation to visit the Hope Hostel since the Government’s Rwanda Bill was passed late on Monday night and was given a guided tour of the …