Home Office spent £268k on deportation flights that never flew

Protesters supporting the Stansted 15, who stopped a Home Office deportation flight in 2017.Photograph: Kristian Buus/In Pictures/GettyThe Home Office has spent a quarter of a million pounds on charter flights to deport people in the last three months without a single plane leaving the runway in that period, it has been revealed.About 12,000 migrants are forcibly removed from the UK each year with another 20,000 removed through the voluntary returns route. Approximately 2,000 of those forcibly r